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In the popular imagination lost cities were real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that fell into terminal decline and whose location was later lost. ... The concept of a lost city is widely used in popular culture. ...

Myth and legend

// The origin of the legend Quivira and Cíbola are two of the fantastic Seven Cities of Gold existing only in a myth that originated around the year 1150 when the Moors conquered Mérida, Spain. ... El Dorado (Spanish for the gilded one) is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water. ... El Dorado (sometimes spelled Eldorado) is a mythical city of gold (sometimes called the Lost City of Gold). // El Dorado may also refer to: Argentina Eldorado, Misiones in Misiones Province Eldorado Department Australia Eldorado, Victoria, an old gold-mining ghost town Brazil Eldorado, São Paulo Eldorado (Mato Grosso do...

In fiction by John Christopher

Samuel Youd (born February 12, 1922 in Lancashire) is a British science fiction author. ... The City of Gold, as shown on a book cover. ... Tripods title, one of the very first computer-generated titles The Tripods is series of books written by John Christopher (alias for Samuel Youd) in the late 1960s which were also filmed as a science fiction TV-series, produced in the UK. The story of the Tripods is post-apocalyptic... The Tripods title, seemingly computer-generated, but made using traditional animation The Tripods is series of novels written by Samuel Youd (under the pen name John Christopher) beginning in the late 1960s. ...

Screen

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (often abbreviated as MCoG) (Japanese: 太陽の子エステバン; Taiyō no Ko Esuteban , French: Les Mystérieuses Cités dOr, also released as Esteban and the Seven Cities of Gold) is an animated television series produced by Studio Pierrot. ... Movie poster Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is a movie directed by Gary Nelson and released on May 16, 1987 in the USA. It is based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard of the same name. ... Tarzan and the City of Gold is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the sixteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. ... James H. Pierce and Joan Burroughs Pierce starred in the 1932-34 Tarzan radio series 1964 Edition of Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ...

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GeoDataSource Cities Database Gold (669 words)
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GeoDataSource Cities Database Gold Edition (GAGN) - August 2007 Release
GeoDataSource Cities Database Gold Edition contains 2,880,880 entries with city names in original language and English, feature type classifications, country names in FIPS and ISO, regions, sub-regions, state or First-Order Administrative Division, county or Second-Order Administrative Division, longitude and latitude in degree and decimal, Univeral Transverse Mercator coordinate grid and Joint Operations Graphic reference.
Mysterious cities of gold - definition of Mysterious cities of gold in Encyclopedia (795 words)
The Cities of Gold, of which there is seven, were built by the Emperor of Mu out of fear of a global war which would destroy civilization.
The Seven Cities of Gold hold copies of books in their "Universal Libraries" as well as powerful artifacts, including the "Great Legacy", a portable nuclear reactor.
This triggers an obsessive quest for the Cities of Gold on the part of the Spaniards (Mendoza, Gomez, Perez, Pizzarro).
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