Translation Text for the Video European Blue Banana
In the Middle Ages, a city often had only a few 100 inhabitants and the big cities were of course smaller at that time. More than
10,000 people, that was considered a big city. And then there is Cologne, with 40,000 inhabitants, the metropolis of Germany in the 15th
century. In general, the places of trade, they are the major attractions. Hamburg, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, these are the major
German cities. And only the cosmopolitan cities of Paris, Milan and Bologna break the 100,000 marks. To this day, all these Trading
Cities are in the core region of Europe, the so-called Blue Banana. You can see them particularly well at night from space, because the
sea of lights of the big cities runs like a band through Europe. Starting in London via Brussels, the cities along the Rhine
[River] to Munich and Northern Italy. This is the most densely populated region in Europe and about 40% of the EU population
live and work here [in 2015].
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