For example the town i live is ‘Twinned’ with a random town in France, but there are many local towns twinned with other towns all over Europe beyond.
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The concept was started by the mayor of coventry, Alfred grindlay, in 1942 as a kind gesture to the people trapped in stalingrad forced to endure the war like conventry did during the blitz, with both cities officially becoming sister cities in 1944 with Kiel and dresden joing in 47′ and 56′ respectively and finally Belgrade in 57′ after the Yugoslavian ambassador gifted timber to be used for a new civic theater, now adays its to encourage economic cooperation or even promote tourism between cities and nations
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