Twinned Cities
Sister cities of Bishkek include:
- Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Astana, Kazakhstan
- Qazvin, Iran
- Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, since 1994
- Meriden, Connecticut, USA, since 2005
- Ankara, Turkey
- İzmir, Turkey
- Ürümqi, People's Republic of China
- Minsk, Belarus, since 2008
Read more about this topic: Bishkek
Famous quotes containing the words twinned and/or cities:
“We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i’ the sun
And bleat the one at th’ other. What we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did. Had we pursued that life,
And our weak spirits ne’er been higher reared
With stronger blood, we should have answered heaven
Boldly “Not guilty,” the imposition cleared
Hereditary ours.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)