post old pictures of your country/city/town/village it can be

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>>67905311
Bloody nice, OP.

Pic rel is my town. There's a barber in the centre I went to as a kid which had loads of old photos of the town on the walls, including one showing Queen Elizabeth when she came to visit in the 50s.

The street in pic rel is pedestrianised now. Feels kinda sad looking at old pics, back then it looked like a nice and bustling little town with an industrous past, but now it's a dilapidated shithole with a big Paki population and a town centre nobody wants to visit. As soon as I get the opportunity to move away, I don't think I'll ever live here again

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>>67905311
Sure :)

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good thread

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i have few medieval drawings of slovakia

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the stuff in the foreground is now glorious commie blocks

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I will also post the present day location as a parallel

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>>67905955

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My neighborhood, 1940.

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>>67905991
Present

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>>67905995

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>>67905311
valencia 1563

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>>67906034
nitra changed a lot
present day

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>>67905646
>Feels kinda sad looking at old pics
iktf, modernity has wreaked havoc in Budapest as well, that cute neighbourhood on the lower half of this picture was razed in the 30s to make way for a futuristic Bauhaus district, which never came to be because of WWII
then we got communism and a lot of easily repairable buildings that were damaged during the war got demolished per the order of party officials

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>>67906074

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>>67906111

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>>67905955
I do, too
must have been a beautiful city during the golden days of the kingdom, it's kinda pathetic now, but the old town has some really nice parts

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>>67906136

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Elisabeth bridge before WWII, and in its present day form, rebuilt from scratch during the 60's

>>67905991
>>67906030
really cute

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>>67906198
Present

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>>67906175

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Buda and Pest during Turkish times

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>>67906224
Thanks. Its one of the few cities not fucked by communists.

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Here is capitol when it was new and sat amidst farmland. Cows in winter would even up into forties and fifties would take shelter near the building.

>>67906148
It was never allowed to shine due to Wien being 45 minutes away. Its true to this day

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Budapest during the 30s

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>>67906354
Present

>>67906103
It's always a shit feeling when some historic building is rekt. There's a village in my county which had its disused mill burned down recently. Some house builders wanted to have it demolished to construct a new housing estate and there's a conspiracy going round that says the fire was started deliberately to force the council to demolish the building so that they could go forward with the new homes.

Anyway despite commies fucking shit up Budapest still is a pretty place, the parliament is especially beautiful. We have a lot of left-wing modernist shit here too built back after the second world war. It's funny how architecture from the 60s looks far more dated than architecture from the 19th century and before

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>>67906260

>>67906298
crazy how it was majority muslim in that time

>>67906381
Looks like a happy, wonderful place!

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>>67906458

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1950

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>>67906504

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I got this

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Beauty on Danube boys!

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>>67906561
same church

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the Chain Bridge with the famous "hotel row" of Pest in the front, each of the buildings erected by rich American and Western European hotel chains during the economic and demographic boom of Budapest

>>67906495
I know, the clouds and the lights make it look like something straight out of an old DC comicbook

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Buda Castle in 1860

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>>67906642

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>>67906605

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ayy

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>>67906668
and a picture of Buda Castle today, for comparison

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>>67906676

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>>67905827
I love this drawing. Are there still a lot of Dutch-era buildings there. I'd love to see those buildings, because many of them are a mix of traditional Indonesian architecture and Dutch architecture.

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>>67906716

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Zaragoza 1563

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>>67906745
Windhelm

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>>67906812

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>>67906554

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>>67906853

>>67906680
>>67906745
>>67906821
>пocтит хyдoжecтвeннoe пpeдcтaвлeниe aвтopa 19 в. вмecтo ayтeнтичных зapиcoвoк coвepмeнникoв
eбaть ты лoх.жпг

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Budapest around the 4th century AD, when it was known by its Roman name, Aquincum

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>>67905311

>>67907014
so it wasnt really Budapest...

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>>67906990
Зaтo кpacивo

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Amsterdam by Aivazovsky

>>67907058
Эcтeт хpeнoв. Tpeд нe oб этoм. Tы хoтя бы зapиcoвки Oлepия зaпocти, чтo пepeд бeлыми людьми пoзopишьcя?

>>67907119
>тpeд нe oб этoм
it can be a photo, a map, a drawing or whatever

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Burgos 1600

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Budapest in the 17th century, during one of the many Habsburg-Ottoman battles

>>67907026
no, technically it wasn't, but without the Romans settling in the area there wouldn't be a Budapest to talk about today, as in the 9th century, its still standing buildings were thought to be the remnants of Attila the Hun's capital, whom the leaders of the invading Magyars viewed as the forefather of the Hungarian tribes, and they thus decided that it will be the seat of Árpád and all of his descendants from there on out

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>>67905311

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>>67907053

>>67907259
Yes there would, its near water, there were settlements since neanderthals

>>67907266
nice one m8, if it weren't for the file name I would've thought it was someplace in Germany or The Netherlands

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>>67907573
but none of them were anywhere close to as big as Aquincum was, not even other Roman provincial towns along the Danube (already occupied towns and cities excluded)

pic related, the ruins of Aquincum's smaller amphitheatre

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frozen-over Danube and the clearing of the Pest embankment during an especially cold winter in the 30s

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Pretty much the whole city of Cologne got destroyed in WW2. It was a really beautiful city before that.

Before

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>>67908068
The same place today

At least they are going to rebuild the park.. or whatever that is.

>>67908068
Cologne is still beautiful, but it's quite sad indeed

>>67908124
Ebertplatz is ok now imo.
The africans may be annoying, but little artshops started popping up. Also they planted trees around that defunct aliendildo.

>>67908125
It's okay, there are some places that look better and some that look worse.

But seeing those lonely old buildings in-between ugly post-war buildings is .. not the best feeling.

>>67908168
It could be so much better though.

The same could be said about pretty much any city in NRW. They all looked rather nice before the war and you know what they look like now.

>>67906805
There are some that is still in good shape, but sadly, most of the Dutch-era building has been demolished or abandoned.

>>67908278
Mh, its getting slowly better though.
Northrhine Westphalia was always the industrial region so it was targeted specifically for destruction and had to be rebuild specifically fast due to its importance.

So the 50s/60s shitblocks which are now sloooooowly fading out were an absolute necessity. Moral of the story, dont eat anything bigger then your head and be nice to your neighboors ._.

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>>67907958
It's sad what war can cause, but at least friendships are recovered and so did we.

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>>67905311
my grand^40(?) grandpa's village

>>67908590
severo ma giusto

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>>67905311

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just found this map of Pest, as it were in 1758, the old city walls still circling around the town

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>>67915824
present day

the city walls were torn down at the beginning of the 19th century, but some parts survived in the courtyards or as the firewalls of apartment buildings

great thread

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>he is not modern fag

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Coquimbo 1872

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my city starded to be a real city in the renaissance, sorry

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>>67919931

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>>67920044

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>>67920134
>>67920085
>>67920044
>>67919931
>>67919899
Here you have one of Toledo, the old capital

>>67919931

> al madridi

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In the peak of the oil boom, this airport was the busiest in the world. Several times more than Heathrow.

>>67920298
مجريط Maǧrīţ, Magerit,Matrich, Maerit... who knows its better say Madrí,Madriz o Madrid

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We used to have the most wealthy black community in the us. Naturally the whites in the city were jealous as hell and destroyed everything with a slight provocation that turned out to be false (guy allegedly raped a woman, but it never happened). That side of town, formerly known as black wallstreet, has yet to be rebuilt. There's still tons of empty lots and stairs that used to lead to houses. That area is just like any other ghetto now.

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>>67920800
why cant dindus do another one?
> muh oppresion

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New Orleans used to have the largest population of gens de couleur libres in the Americas, but then Napoleon sold us off to those dirty Americans and thousands of once free negros were put in chains. So much for the land of the free :(

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Budapest after WWII

>>67920800
>>67920671
>>67920632
>>67920574
I looked it up on wikipedia, and Tulsa seems like a nice city, judging solely by the widespread presence of art deco architecture

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The university old main then

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>>67922128
and now-ish

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as a good night post before I'm going to bed, here's a picture of Buda's Castle Hill, its architecture a beautiful mix of gothic and renaissance, at the start of the 1500s, before the Ottoman invasion, and at the beginning of the 1700s, after the Turks have been chased away

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A 1700~ drawing of my town being burned down by the Asspaniards

>i-its more successful than our Spanish towns
>i-its technically on Amerindian land... they c-could totally see this as an insult
>h-how are those Negroes and Pagans more efficient than our own people?

They still mad

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>>67908068

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>>67927610
both Köln 1900

>>67926924
butthurt savage btfo

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München 1900 - Maximilianstraße

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Berlin 1900

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>>67927800
also Berlin

>>67927701
>savages

While there were some Amerindians, it wasnt a Native town. It was a town that was outside of Spanish jurisdiction, because of this no taxes, restrictions and so on. It was mostly made up of Spaniards and Blacks back then, Amerindians had their own towns so they didnt care about that kind of stuff.

The reason why it was burn down, but then rebuild again, was because the Spanish authorities found that a single woman who lived there owned more cattle than the rest of the Province, this became news all over the Province and everybody started to question why that messy town had such abundance if the rest of the Province was literally poor as fuck.

>daily reminder government is shit and just a rock in the road of development

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Hamburg ~1900

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Magdeburg 1900

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Karlsruhe

>>67927800
>>67927833
Disgusting. I'm glad it was rebuild into the beautiful city it currently is.

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Frankfurt

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>>67928327
> tfw no more comfy Oslo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2wjxOro9Y

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Stockholm in 1535

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Königsberg 1900

>>67929109
This looks nice. What happened with all these old buildings?

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>>67929177
Most of them were either torn down over the years, replaced or updated.

The only major building shown there that's still around is the Brown Palace Hotel, which is on the right side of that picture, and the middle right of this one.

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>>67929341
The other pictures were taken from the capitol building, and you can see how much has been changed in 60 years.

>>67929341
It really is a shame. Do you have something like a preservation of sites of historic interest today? Some buildings earn this title after a while here and it's not allowed to destroy them.

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>>67929468
Pretty much. If it's from before the 1900's its basically a landmark. Most of the churches are still around, some of the more architecturally important ones too.

This is Trinity church, the second oldest in Denver, and the Brown Palace

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>>67929595
>>67929468
>>67929341
>>67929459
Most of it was demolished in the fifties and sixties. Real bummer is a bunch of them were torn down for parking lots. The domed courthouse in the first couple pictures is now a parking garage.

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>>67929355

100 years later lel