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Europe
The European continent is one of the smallest and most densely populated continents of the world. Climate diversity and natural conditions, along with technological development and high levels of living, have contributed to an equal distribution of population over most of the continent’s lands. Many major cities have evolved over the years, and the most important cities of the continent are Paris and Madrid And London, Moscow and Berlin, the largest of which is the city of London, the capital of the United Kingdom and the former British Empire. It is a city with a long history that is far older than the European Union, in addition to the giant New York City. Ten million people.
London is the largest city in Europe
Geography and climate of the city
London is made up of a city that was built primarily on the northern bank of the River Thames in southeastern England, and has an area of about forty kilometers, and has been added to it many administrative gatherings that made up the current city, which is called Greater London, and the nature of the city is generally flat, and connects the two banks The city across the river many bridges, which began in the Tower of London Bridge in the past, and is located in the village of Greenwich of the city, the British Royal Astronomical Institute, which is determined by the longitude that passes by the number zero, and on the basis of which time zones around the world are calculated.
London is located in the temperate climate region, where the summer is warm, and the cold prevails in the winter, but not less than zero Celsius due to the city’s relative proximity to the coast, but in recent years the effects of global warming have appeared in the apparent variation between summer and winter temperatures.
History of the city
The origin of the city dates back to the Romens who invaded the country in the year forty-three AD, and it was custom of the Romens to construct roads and pave the way for sea and river ports to be used to obtain the resources of the country and for military uses, and in a later period the Romens built a wall around the city to protect it from raiders, and after about four centuries fell Rome was in the hands of the barbarians, which led to the evacuation of the Romen garrison from London, and the city did not develop for the next five centuries, except when the Saxon kings began to build castles and churches in the city to expand its area during the Middle Ages and become during the sixteenth centuries The seventeenth is the most important global trade center, and despite the passage of the city with many disasters during its history, such as the civil war during the reign of King Charles I, and the plague that plagued the city in the same period of the seventeenth century, Londoners were able to rebuild the city again using bricks instead Of wood, and by the nineteenth century London had become one of the largest cities in the world.
