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Waitangi, New Zealand, where a significant treaty between the Maori & the Paheka was signed, the upholding of which is the reason why New Zealand declined an invitation to be part of Australia's federation, proclaimed on 1st January 1901.

Xenia, Ohio (never been there)

York, a great place to visit in northeast England, where Vikings once lived.

Zurich, a city in Switzerland, famed world-wide for finance & business, inspiring everything from Harry Potter's Gringott's bank to an Asterix adventure in the Roman province of Helvetia.

Amsterdam, a city in the Netherlands.

Bristol, England

Constantinople, once called Byzantium, which, as Istanbul, is still an important world city, even though it is no longer the capital of modern-day Turkey.

[unbelievably, someone on the tv programme I am watching just talked about something happening in Copenhagen!]

Darwin, the capital of the Australia state of Northern Territory.

Edirne, Turkey, once called Adrianople, where the Emperor Valens was killed defending the Eastern Roman Empire from the Goths in 378 AD.

Fayetteville, GA, USA.

Some random town down south. Probably named for someone called Fayette.

Golden, Colorado

Hastings, a town on the south coast of England, famous for a nearby battle (commemorated in the naming of the actual town, Battle!) in 1066, and also famous for smugglers.

Iberia, a name of the entire modern Iberian peninsula, containing both Spain & Portugal, as well as an old Hellenic kingdom located in Georgia, in the Caucasus mountains, along with Colchis of the Golden Fleece.

Cleander wrote:Fayetteville, GA, USA.

I think your Georgian town is called after Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette , a Revolutionary hero in USA though loyal to the autocratic Louis XVI in France, but also believed having a Constitutional Monarchy such as the system then in use by his enemy, in USA, at any rate, Great Britain . He had a chequered reputation in France & Austria during & after the French revolution, dying as late as 1834.

Kathmandu, Nepal

Laramie, Wyoming