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Town twinning - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | In Europe, such pairs of towns are known as twin towns, friendship towns or, in German, partner towns (Partnerstädte); in North America and Australasia, the term sister cities is used for the same concept; and brother cities (города-побратимы) is the term in the former Soviet bloc. |
 | | The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada was one of the first cities ever to enter into an international twinning arrangement when, in 1944, it twinned with the city of Odessa, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. |
 | | List of twin towns and sister cities - a substantial, though incomplete, list of twinning arrangements, arranged by country. |
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