How did your country's capital city become the capital?

Some Russian hobo decided it should be and so it became.

>>78539243
because it was in the center

ask your whore mother

>>78539274
Are not they Swedes?

>>78539337
Roach, pls. My mother is deceased ;_;

It's in the center lmao

>>78539380

Swedes established Turku as the capital, but after they lost to you the capital was moved to Helsinki for strategic reasons.

>>78539479
Thanks for the explanation.

>>78539625
fuck off

>>78539712
Whats wrong?

Well, it commands a cheeky trade route from the Danube to the Adriatic, and by the early 16th century when the Herberstein family which was in charge of the defence against the Turks chose the city as its capital in its role as Habsburg deputies for the Duchy of Krain, Laibach gained a distinct advantage over its older rival towns of Krainburg and Stein im Krain. This role carried over to the choice of capital for Napoleon's shortlived Illyrian provinces, and when the national movement kicked in directly after, only one Austrian duchy had a Slovene majority, which was Krain, so Laibach, which they called Ljubljana, was once again chosen as the base for their struggle against Austria, in which they eventually succeeded some 150 years later, making Ljubljana a proper national capital for the first time in its 850 years of existence. Its population still only barely exceeded 100k in 1945 though, having been swollen by refugees from the countryside.

the bedrock of aztec culture, conquista and independence.
Those who control the capital control the whole country. every kind of power be that financial, government, military, security, law, health, education, commerce and what not is contained somewhere of the 16 municipalities the mexican capital has.
Anything else besides mexico city is always in second place and that's why there's so much recentness on the capital. Is extremely hard to find good opportunities outside mexico city but at the same time those opportunities are limited to those already living there and coming from the country to the capital is a hassle. To combat this the government has done absolutely nothing, on the contrary all the mega projects and health, financial infrastructure is focused in there and nowhere else.

Because its the Centre™ of Nordic™

I'm not 100% sure. It has always been a centre of power. Most of our royalty lived there or nearby

well you know

The US capital was originally Philadelphia. However, the southern states refused to agree to certain aspects of being part of the US, including the idea of a shared national debt, and threatened to leave the union unless the capital was moved to the South. So as a compromise, the capital was placed in between Virginia and Maryland (both considered Southern states at the time).

>>78540042
>To combat this the government has done absolutely nothing
Mexico's entire history in a nutshell

>>78540045
A more accurate explanation is the following.
Stockholm was already a heavily fortified, well supplied stronghold before 1634 when it became the capital.
The royal houses, the government, royal traders and other important people moved there from various locations simply because it was a safe place to be. Also a good tactical location.

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The strory says that some nomads from the north were told to establish a city where they found an eagle devouring a snake by the God Huitzilopochtli, they found it on the center of Texcoco lake and there they found Tenochtitlan and was the capital of the Aztec empire.
Then the Spanish came and conquered and make from that city the capital of the Viceroyalty of the New Spain, and then after the independence it was kept as the capital city.

Designed and located by occult geometrical principles to concentrate maximum power

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>>78539243
Main port, coonial authorities.

>>78540397
wrong. they put a lot of gold and silver into a hollowed log and put in the baltic sea. wherever that log washed ashore the capital would be.

>>78540845
that seems pretty stupid

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>>78540835
*colonial fugg, my L key is fucked.

>>78540845
Where did you go to school? College of Bullshit?

>>78540884
Not really, maybe they cared about the current, winds and coast configuration for navigation purposes, the log thing would be some kind of probing.

If I remember correctly, Ottawa was chosen because it was further away from the American border than Toronto, and because it straddled the line between English speaking Canada and Quebec so it represented unity or something.

>>78539337
wew disgusting roach

>>78540990
>coon ial
There, there, shhh it's ok, nobody is perfect bro.

>>78539337
rude!

>>78541531
kek, you just can't take racist jokes seriously when they come from a mexican.

>>78541107
Yeah but it didn't happen at all.

God clearly had a thing for it sending allof his boys there, rest is history

It constantly changed (34 times) so I will say the first time and the last time
>First time
Clovis just decided so, for convenience surely

>Last time
1944, De Gaulle establishes the provisional government and make Paris the capital again

Alexander sold New York city down the river

>>78546224
>34 times
for real? why. come on, give us all 34 reasons and locations at least

>>78546385
I thought this was normal
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitale_de_la_France
not gonna translate all of this though, too lazy rn

Because Berlin was the capital of Prussia and the Prussia was the leading state of the German Empire. Berlin itseld became the capital of Prussia because their original capital Königsberg was in bumfuck nowhere and everyone there got killed by the plague, meanwhile in Berlin they had just built an important canal and lots of well educated French refuuges settled in the city, making it very rich.

After reuniffication I don't know why they chose Berlin again, I suppose because it was symbolical due to the division of the city itself and both east and west could relate to it. Though it was a mistake because all of the industry of Berlin had moved to Munich and never returned.

czechoslovakia needed claims so they said Pressburg is capital for Slovaks

Because Roma
and because center of the country

>>78546708
post penis

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The highest place in the country. Ancients built castles there.

>>78539243
Tunis exists since antiquity, it was a berber settlement on the western shore of the lake separating it from Carthage which was on the eastern shore (it was actually a peninsula and the lake was more like a gulf).

By the arab conquests, the capital was moved from Carthage to Qayrawan, after a while and a number of different caliphates, kingdoms, emirates and sultanates, a rebel faction took Tunis and used it as their base, the strategic advantage the city had helped them hold it for a while, Hafsids later made it the capital because of the strategic location, didn't change since.

Now Tunis got so big that Carthage became a district of the city.

>>78540333
This, also it was neutral territory to put the capital. I've always found the fact that Washington literally didn't exist before it was named the capital to be interesting, it seems like almost all other colonial states just used pre-existing cities. Even Brazil used Rio for a while before moving to Brasilia.

>>78547927
do you keep track of your family tree since like 2000 years ago? any pictures of them of them from the biblical times? i am curious what life was like before christ.

>>78539243
Lebanese scum made it so back in antiquity

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natural port + most populated city

We needed to boost the economy + isolate the corrupt politicians in the middle of nowhere so they can't be bothered by the majority of the population that live in the coastline

>>78539243
It was capital of primcedom which conquered others in dont really remember century, about 13-15.

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It was in the center.

>>78539757
Russophobia.

>>78540751
nah. OG capital would have been NYC which would have been much better imo but they wanted the capital to reflect all the states at the time and Virginia is a healthy compromise between Northern and Southern States.

>>78546708
Also the part where the center of the country's main religion where a guy who declared himself to be the living herald of God was militarly invaded