formerCapitalOf

P3417 predicate

Indicates that a place once served as the capital of another entity (such as a country or region) but no longer holds that status.

Aliases (50)
  • wasCapitalOf ×141
  • formerCapital ×20
  • previousCapital ×12
  • servedAsCapitalOf ×9
  • historicalCapitalOf ×7
  • capitalPeriod ×6
  • replacedAsCapitalBy ×5
  • wasCapitalDuring ×4
  • ancientCapital ×3
  • capitalCityHistorical ×3
  • hasAncientCapital ×3
  • hasHistoricalCapital ×3
  • isFormerCapitalOf ×3
  • capitalCityInHistory ×2
  • capitalRelocatedFrom ×2
  • formerPrincelyStateCapital ×2
  • hasCapitalAtDifferentTimes ×2
  • historicCapital ×2
  • historicalCapitalGoverned ×2
  • predecessorCapital ×2
  • previousCoCapitals ×2
  • servedAsCapitalFor ×2
  • voivodeshipCapitalUntil ×2
  • wasFormerCapitalOf ×2
  • capitalCityInAntiquity ×1
  • capitalOfFormerKingdom ×1
  • capitalOfHistoricalRegion ×1
  • capitalOfNawabLocatedAt ×1
  • capitalUnderRome ×1
  • formerNationalCapitalLocation ×1
  • hasCapitalMovedFrom ×1
  • hasFormerCapital ×1
  • hasFormerCapitalOfFinland ×1
  • historicCapitalOf ×1
  • historicalCapitalAssociated ×1
  • historicalCapitalCity ×1
  • historicalCapitalOfBohemia ×1
  • historicalCapitalOfCzechSilesia ×1
  • historicalCapitalOfMoravia ×1
  • isCapitalOfFormerRegion ×1
  • isHistoricRegionCapitalOf ×1
  • isProvisionalCapitalOf ×1
  • lastCapital ×1
  • locatedInFormerCapitalOf ×1
  • lostImperialCityStatus ×1
  • predecessorCapitalForRegion ×1
  • previousCapitalOfFinland ×1
  • previousCapitalOfRegion ×1
  • previousVoivodeshipCapitalOf ×1
  • previouslyCapitalOf ×1
Sample triples (351)
Subject Object
Aachen Carolingian Empire (de facto) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire NERFINISHED →
Alabama Cahaba ("previousCapital") →
Alabama Huntsville ("previousCapital") →
Alabama St. Stephens ("previousCapital") →
Alabama Tuscaloosa ("previousCapital") →
Albany, Scotland Stirling ("historicalCapitalAssociated") →
Alexandria Byzantine Egypt ("wasCapitalOf") →
Alexandria Ptolemaic Kingdom ("wasCapitalOf") →
Alexandria Roman Egypt ("wasCapitalOf") →
Almaty Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ("wasCapitalOf") →
Almaty Kazakhstan ("isFormerCapitalOf") →
Almaty Republic of Kazakhstan ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis New Kingdom Egypt ("historicalCapitalOf") →
Andhra State Kurnool ("predecessorCapitalForRegion") →
Angra do Heroísmo Azores ("historicCapitalOf") →
Antium Volsci ("wasCapitalOf") →
Arizona Prescott ("previousCapital") →
Arizona Tucson ("previousCapital") →
Arles Roman province Gallia Narbonensis (at times) ("wasProvincialCapitalOf") →
Baghdad Abbasid Caliphate ("wasCapitalOf") →
Bakhchisarai 16th century to late 18th century (approximate) ("capitalPeriod") →
Bakhchisarai Crimean Khanate ("wasCapitalOf") →
Bata Equatorial Guinea →
Batavia Dutch East Indies ("principalColonialCapitalOf") →
Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Belgrade Kingdom of Serbia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Belgrade Kingdom of Yugoslavia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Belize City Belize NERFINISHED →
Belize City Belmopan ("replacedAsCapitalBy") →
Bengal Dhaka ("hasHistoricalCapital") →
Bengal Kolkata ("hasHistoricalCapital") →
Bergen Norway ("wasCapitalOf") →
Bodden Town Cayman Islands →
Bonn West Germany →
Bourbonnais Bourbon-l’Archambault ("formerCapital") →
Bratislava Kingdom of Hungary ("wasCapitalOf") →
Brazil Rio de Janeiro ("formerCapital") →
Brazzaville French Equatorial Africa ("wasCapitalOf") →
British Solomon Islands Protectorate Tulagi ("formerCapital") →
Buda Kingdom of Hungary ("wasCapitalOf") →
Budapest Austria-Hungary ("wasCoCapitalOf") →
Bursa Ottoman Empire →
Burundi Bujumbura ("formerCapital") →
Cairo Citadel Egypt ("servedAsCapitalFor") →
Calabar Eastern Region of Nigeria ("wasCapitalOf") NERFINISHED →
Calabar Southern Protectorate of Nigeria ("wasCapitalOf") →
Carnatic region of India Arcot ("capitalOfNawabLocatedAt") →
Castile Spanish monarchy ("historicalCapitalOf") →
Celle Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Celle line) →
Central Province Tulagi ("formerNationalCapitalLocation") →
Central Province, Solomon Islands Tulagi ("formerCapital") →
Chambéry Duchy of Savoy ("wasCapitalOf") →
Chambéry Turin ("replacedAsCapitalBy") →
Chania Crete →
Charleston South Carolina →
Chiang Mai Lanna Kingdom →
Churches and Convents of Goa Portuguese India →
Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne ("isHistoricRegionCapitalOf") →
Cochin Kingdom of Cochin ("wasCapitalOf") →
Coimbra Kingdom of Portugal ("wasCapitalOf") →
Colombo Sri Lanka →
Connecticut Hartford ("previousCoCapitals") →
Connecticut New Haven ("previousCoCapitals") →
Corte Corsica →
County Down Downpatrick ("historicCapital") →
Cusco Inca Empire →
Cuttack Odisha NERFINISHED →
Czech lands Brno ("historicalCapitalOfMoravia") →
Czech lands Opava ("historicalCapitalOfCzechSilesia") →
Czech lands Prague ("historicalCapitalOfBohemia") →
Daegu North Gyeongsang Province →
Dakar French West Africa ("wasCapitalOf") →
Dakar Mali Federation ("wasCapitalOf") →
Damascus Umayyad Caliphate ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Dijon Duchy of Burgundy →
Edenton Province of North Carolina ("wasCapitalOf") →
Egyptians Alexandria ("ancientCapital") →
Egyptians Memphis ("ancientCapital") →
Egyptians Thebes ("ancientCapital") →
Entebbe Uganda →
Faizabad Awadh →
Faizabad Oudh →
Fatehpur Sikri Mughal Empire ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ferrara Duchy of Ferrara ("wasCapitalOf") NERFINISHED →
Fes el-Bali Morocco ("historicalCapitalOf") →
Fez Alaouite dynasty ("wasCapitalOf") →
Fez Idrisid dynasty ("wasCapitalOf") →
Fez Marinid dynasty ("wasCapitalOf") →
French West Africa Saint-Louis ("formerCapital") →
Gaul Lugdunum ("capitalUnderRome") →
Guastalla Duchy of Guastalla ("wasCapitalOf") NERFINISHED →
Guatemala City Antigua Guatemala ("formerCapital") →
Gwalior princely state of Gwalior ("wasCapitalOf") →
Handan State of Zhao →
Hangzhou Southern Song dynasty ("wasCapitalOf") →
Hanover Kingdom of Hanover →
Hebron Kingdom of Judah (Davidic period) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Heidelberg Electorate of the Palatinate ("wasCapitalOf") →
Helsinki Turku ("previousCapitalOfFinland") →
Henan Province Anyang ("hasAncientCapital") →
Henan Province Kaifeng ("hasAncientCapital") →
Henan Province Luoyang ("hasAncientCapital") →
Hippo Regius Numidia (at certain periods) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Historic Centre of Mexico City Viceroyalty of New Spain ("wasCapitalOf") →
Honiara Tulagi ("replacedCapital") →
Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh →
Hyderabad Hyderabad State ("formerPrincelyStateCapital") →
Hyderabad, Sindh Sindh →
Ihnasya al-Madinah First Intermediate Period ("wasCapitalDuring") →
Ihnasya al-Madinah Herakleopolitan dynasties ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ihnasya al-Madinah Ninth Dynasty of Egypt ("wasCapitalDuring") →
Ihnasya al-Madinah Tenth Dynasty of Egypt ("wasCapitalDuring") →
Isfahan Persia →
Isfahan Safavid Empire →
Jaffna Jaffna Kingdom ("wasCapitalOf") →
Jamestown Williamsburg ("replacedAsCapitalBy") →
Jhansi Jhansi State ("formerPrincelyStateCapital") →
Jiangsu Nanjing ("hasHistoricalCapital") →
Jin dynasty Caizhou ("lastCapital") →
Junagadh Princely State of Junagadh ("wasCapitalOf") →
Kaduna State Northern Region of Nigeria ("isCapitalOfFormerRegion") NERFINISHED →
Kandahar Afghanistan ("wasCapitalOf") →
Kandahar Durrani Empire ("wasCapitalOf") →
Kandy Kingdom of Kandy ("wasCapitalOf") →
Karlsruhe Grand Duchy of Baden ("wasCapitalOf") →
Karlsruhe Republic of Baden ("wasCapitalOf") →
Kaunas Lithuania ("isProvisionalCapitalOf") →
Kaunas Lithuania ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Kazakhstan Almaty ("formerCapital") →
Kharkiv Kyiv ("replacedAsCapitalBy") →
Kharkiv Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ("wasCapitalOf") →
Kingdom of Fife Dunfermline ("historicCapital") →
Kingdom of the Lombards Milan ("previousCapital") →
Kingdom of the Lombards Verona ("previousCapital") →
Kingston Province of Canada ("wasCapitalOf") →
Kingston, New York New York State →
Kingston, Ontario Province of Canada ("wasCapitalOf") →
Konya Sultanate of Rum ("wasCapitalOf") →
Kraków Poland ("isFormerCapitalOf") →
Kufa Ali ibn Abi Talib ("servedAsCapitalFor") →
Kufa Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib ("wasCapitalOf") →
Kuomintang Chongqing ("historicalCapitalGoverned") →
Kuomintang Nanjing ("historicalCapitalGoverned") →
Kutaisi Democratic Republic of Georgia →
Kutaisi Kingdom of Georgia →
Kutaisi United Kingdom of Georgia period ("wasCapitalDuring") →
Kyoto Japan →
Königsberg Duchy of Prussia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Königsberg East Prussia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Lagos Nigeria →
Lahaina Kingdom of Hawaii →
Lahore Mughal Empire (intermittently) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Lahore Punjab Province under British India ("wasCapitalOf") →
Larisa (ancient city) Thessaly ("wasCapitalOf") →
Levuka Fiji ("wasCapitalOf") →
León Kingdom of León ("wasCapitalOf") →
Loreto, Baja California Sur Las Californias →
Lourenço Marques Mozambique ("wasCapitalOf") →
Lower Austria Vienna ("formerCapital") →
Luanda Portuguese Angola ("wasCapitalOf") →
Luang Prabang Kingdom of Laos →
Luang Prabang Kingdom of Luang Prabang →
Lwów Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ("wasCapitalOf") →
Lwów Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Lwów Lwów Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Lübeck Free City of Lübeck ("wasCapitalOf") →
Madurai Madurai Sultanate ("wasCapitalOf") →
Madurai Nayak kingdom of Madurai ("wasCapitalOf") →
Madurai Pandya dynasty ("wasCapitalOf") →
Mantua Duchy of Mantua ("wasCapitalOf") NERFINISHED →
Maseru British Protectorate of Basutoland ("wasCapitalOf") →
Mathura Surasena kingdom ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Mauritania Saint-Louis, Senegal ("capitalRelocatedFrom") →
Meiji era Kyoto ("formerCapital") →
Meknes Morocco ("wasCapitalOf") →
Melbourne Australia (1901–1927) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Memphis (Egypt) Egypt during Early Dynastic Period ("wasCapitalOf") →
Memphis (Egypt) Egypt during Late Period at times ("wasCapitalOf") →
Memphis (Egypt) Egypt during parts of the Middle Kingdom ("wasCapitalOf") →
Memphis (Egypt) Egypt during parts of the New Kingdom ("wasCapitalOf") →
Memphis (Egypt) Old Kingdom of Egypt ("wasCapitalOf") →
Memphis (ancient city) Early Dynastic Period ("capitalPeriod") →
Memphis (ancient city) Old Kingdom ("capitalPeriod") →
Memphis (ancient city) parts of Middle Kingdom ("capitalPeriod") →
Memphis (ancient city) parts of New Kingdom ("capitalPeriod") →
Milan Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Milan Western Roman Empire ("wasCapitalOf") →
Milledgeville, Georgia Georgia →
Mingrelians Zugdidi ("capitalOfHistoricalRegion") →
Mobile Alabama Territory ("wasFormerCapitalOf") →
Mobile French Louisiana ("wasFormerCapitalOf") →
Mon Martaban ("capitalCityHistorical") →
Mon Pegu ("capitalCityHistorical") →
Mon Thaton ("capitalCityHistorical") →
Montenegro Cetinje ("formerCapital") →
Montgomery, Alabama Confederate States of America ("wasCapitalOf") →
Montgomery, Alabama Confederate States of America 1861 ("wasCapitalOfFrom") →
Moscow Oblast Moscow ("previousCapital") →
Mthatha Transkei bantustan ("wasCapitalOf") →
Mtskheta Kingdom of Iberia →
Myanmar Yangon ("formerCapital") →
Mysuru Kingdom of Mysore ("wasCapitalOf") →
Nabataean city of Petra Nabataean Kingdom ("wasCapitalOf") →
Nafplion First Hellenic Republic →
Nafplion Kingdom of Greece →
Naha Ryukyu Kingdom (de facto modern successor area) →
Nancy Duchy of Lorraine →
Nanjing Eastern Wu →
Nanjing Ming dynasty →
Nanjing Republic of China →
Nanjing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom →
Nara Japan →
Naypyidaw Yangon ("predecessorCapital") →
New Bern Brunswick Town ("predecessorCapital") →
New Bern Province of North Carolina ("wasCapitalOf") →
New Bern State of North Carolina ("wasCapitalOf") →
Nguyễn dynasty Huế ("capitalPeriod") →
Niagara-on-the-Lake Upper Canada ("wasCapitalOf") →
Nicomedia Eastern Roman Empire (early 4th century) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Nicomedia Kingdom of Bithynia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Nicomedia Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus ("wasCapitalOf") →
Olinda Captaincy of Pernambuco →
Opole Opole Voivodeship (1975–1998) ("previousVoivodeshipCapitalOf") →
Oregon City, Oregon Oregon Territory ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ovalau Fiji →
Oyo New Oyo ("capitalCityInHistory") →
Oyo Oyo-Ile ("capitalCityInHistory") →
Oyo State Oyo Empire ("historicalCapitalOf") →
Oświęcim 1564 ("voivodeshipCapitalUntil") →
Palikir Kolonia ("hasFormerCapital") →
Parma Duchy of Parma ("wasCapitalOf") NERFINISHED →
Patna Bihar and Orissa Province ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Patna Gupta Empire ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Patna Magadha ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Patna Maurya Empire ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Patna Pala Empire ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Patna Sur Empire ("servedAsCapitalOf") →
Pergamon Attalid dynasty ("wasCapitalOf") →
Pergamon Kingdom of Pergamon ("wasCapitalOf") →
Perge Pamphylia Secunda ("wasCapitalOf") →
Piedmont Kingdom of Sardinia ("historicalCapitalOf") →
Plymouth, Massachusetts Plymouth Colony ("wasCapitalOf") →
Plymouth, Massachusetts Plymouth Colony ("wasCapitalOf") →
Poitiers County of Poitou ("wasCapitalOf") →
Poitiers Duchy of Aquitaine ("wasCapitalOf") →
Poznań Polish statehood ("wasEarlyCenterOf") →
Prescott Arizona Territory ("wasCapitalOf") →
Pretoria Transvaal Province ("wasCapitalOf") →
Qajar Iran Shiraz ("hasCapitalMovedFrom") →
Quedlinburg Principality of Quedlinburg →
Quezon City Philippines ("isFormerCapitalOf") →
Quezon City Philippines →
Rabaul East New Britain Province ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ravenna Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ravenna Kingdom of the Lombards (briefly de facto) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ravenna Ostrogothic Kingdom ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ravenna Western Roman Empire ("wasCapitalOf") →
Republic of China Beijing ("previousCapital") →
Republic of China Chongqing ("previousCapital") →
Republic of China Nanjing ("previousCapital") →
Republic of Texas Austin ("hasCapitalAtDifferentTimes") →
Republic of Texas Houston ("hasCapitalAtDifferentTimes") →
Rio de Janeiro Brazil →
Riyadh Diriyah ("previousCapitalOfRegion") →
Rome Italian Social Republic (de facto partial) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Rome Kingdom of Italy ("wasCapitalOf") →
Rome Papal States ("wasCapitalOf") →
Rome Roman Empire ("wasCapitalOf") →
Rome Roman Kingdom ("wasCapitalOf") →
Rome Roman Republic ("wasCapitalOf") →
Ryukyu Islands Shuri ("capitalOfFormerKingdom") →
Saigon French Cochinchina →
Saigon South Vietnam →
Saint-Louis French West Africa ("wasCapitalOf") →
Saint-Louis Senegal ("wasCapitalOf") NERFINISHED →
Sais Saite Dynasty ("wasCapitalOf") →
Sais Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt ("wasCapitalOf") →
Salona Roman province of Dalmatia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Brazil →
Samarra period Baghdad ("capitalRelocatedFrom") →
Sanaʽa Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen ("wasCapitalOf") →
Sanaʽa Republic of Yemen ("wasCapitalOf") →
Sanaʽa Yemen Arab Republic ("wasCapitalOf") →
Santiago de Cuba Cuba →
Shaanxi Province Xi'an ("historicalCapitalCity") →
Shan States Ava ("formerCapital") →
Shan States Mandalay ("formerCapital") →
Shenyang Qing dynasty (early period) ("historicalCapitalOf") →
Shillong Composite state of Assam (before 1972) ("previouslyCapitalOf") →
Shuri Ryukyu Kingdom →
Shusha uezd Karabakh Khanate ("historicalCapitalOf") →
Silves Algarve →
Simbirsk, Russian Empire Simbirsk Governorate ("wasCapitalOf") NERFINISHED →
Sitka Russian America ("wasCapitalOf") →
Sokoto Sokoto Caliphate →
Southwest Finland Turku ("hasFormerCapitalOfFinland") →
Spanish Town Colony of Jamaica →
Spanish Town Jamaica →
Srirangapatna Kingdom of Mysore →
Székesfehérvár Kingdom of Hungary ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tabriz Aq Qoyunlu ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tabriz Ilkhanate (for a period) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tabriz Qara Qoyunlu ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tabriz Safavid Empire (intermittently) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tainan Kingdom of Tungning →
Tainan Qing Taiwan →
Tainan Republic of China (early period) →
Tainan Taiwan →
Tamworth Kingdom of Mercia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tanjore Chola dynasty ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tarabulus al-Gharb Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tarabulus al-Gharb Kingdom of Libya ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tarabulus al-Gharb Libyan Arab Republic ("wasCapitalOf") →
Tarnów Tarnów Voivodeship 1998 ("voivodeshipCapitalUntil") →
Tashkent Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic ("wasCapitalOf") →
Thatta Sindh →
The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean Plymouth ("formerCapital") NERFINISHED →
Topkapi Palace Ottoman Empire ("wasCapitalOf") →
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Hagåtña ("formerCapital") →
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Mojon̄ ("formerCapital") →
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Saipan ("formerCapital") →
Tulagi British Solomon Islands Protectorate →
Tulagi Solomon Islands (colonial administration) →
Tulle Limousin (de facto shared functions) ("regionCapitalBeforeReform") →
Turin Kingdom of Italy ("wasCapitalOf") →
Turin Kingdom of Sardinia ("wasCapitalOf") →
Turku Finland →
Tver Principality of Tver ("wasCapitalOf") →
Udaipur Mewar kingdom →
Ulm 1802 ("lostImperialCityStatus") →
Ulu Cami (Great Mosque of Bursa) Ottoman Empire ("locatedInFormerCapitalOf") →
Ur of the Chaldeans Third Dynasty of Ur ("wasCapitalOf") →
Valladolid Kingdom of Castile →
Valladolid Spanish Monarchy →
Virginia Confederate States of America ("wasCapitalOf") →
Visigothic Kingdom Barcelona ("formerCapital") →
Visigothic Kingdom Toulouse ("formerCapital") →
Winchester Kingdom of England →
Winchester Kingdom of Wessex →
Winchester, Hampshire, England Kingdom of England ("wasCapitalOf") →
Winchester, Hampshire, England Kingdom of Wessex ("wasCapitalOf") →
Xuzhou Chu state (at times, as Pengcheng) ("wasCapitalOf") →
Yangon Myanmar →
Yangon Myanmar ("wasCapitalOf") →
Yangon Naypyidaw ("replacedAsCapitalBy") →
Zanzibar Sultanate of Zanzibar →
Zapotec Monte Albán ("capitalCityInAntiquity") →
al-Mu'tasim Baghdad ("territorialCapitalMovedFrom") →
İznik Empire of Nicaea ("wasCapitalOf") →
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