Szeged has beautiful buildings and wide avenues. This is mainly due to the great flood of 1879, which literally wiped away the whole town (only 265 of the 5723 houses remained and 165 people died). Emperor Franz Joseph visited the town and promised that "Szeged will be more beautiful than it used to be". He kept his promise. During the next years a new, modern city emerged from the ruins, with palaces and wide streets. After the First World War Hungary lost its southern territories to Serbia, as a result Szeged became a city close to the border, and its importance
Angoulême 42,242 inhabitants on 1 January 2009. With a communal area of 2,185 hectares, the density of population is 1,940 inhabitants per km, making it the most densely populated city in Charente and the third most densely populated city in Nouvelle-Aquitaine after La Rochelle and Poitiers. In 2008, the "Urban Unit of Angoulême", which includes eighteen communes totaled 109,553 inhabitants and its "Urban Area", which includes 80 suburban communes in the impact zone of the city, totaled 174,482 inhabitants. It brings together nearly 106,000 inhabitants within an urban conurbation which extends over from north to south. Angoulême is the most populous