| TUNISIA | According to Greek legend, Dido founded the city of Carthage in this country in the 9th century BCE. That city is now a suburb of the country's capital. |
| DIDO | Sister of Pygmalion who founded and ruled the city of Carthage (4) |
| AMERICA | Australia beat this country in the finals of the Davis Cup in 1951 |
| CUBA | Havana is the capital of this country in the Caribbean (4) |
| VEZELAY | This French village lies on a hill on the left bank of the Cure River. Its history is tied to its Benedictine abbey, founded in the 9th century. The abbey attracted pilgrims because the supposed remai |
| CATANIA | This city in Italy was founded in 729 BCE by Chalcidians and then renamed Aetna in the 5th century BCE. It is home to ancient Roman and Greek ruins and structures, and it was rebuilt in Baroque style |
| SALERNO | Port city of southern Italy in which Europe's first medical school was founded in the 9th century (7) |
| GRIMSBY | British city on the Humber estuary in Lincolnshire, founded by Vikings in the 9th Century (7) |
| FLORENCE | It was founded as a Roman military colony about the 1st century BCE. It is the capital of Tuscany. In The Taming of the Shrew (act 1, scene 1), Lucentio says, "A merchant of great traffic through the |
| OGYGIA | According to Greek legend, what was the name of the island where Calypso dwelt? (6) |
| COFFEE | Plant related to lady's bedstraw and gardenia with beans or cherries whose energising effect was first discovered by goatherd Kaldi in the 9th century, according to legend (6) |
| MOPSUS | Son of Apollo and Manto in Greek mythology reputed to have founded the city of Colophon (6) |
| ANTIOCH | Now in Turkey, this city was founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals in the 4th century BCE |
| IBYCUS | Greek poet from the second half of the 6th century BCE, born in a Greek city in southern Italy (6) |
| TUNIS | African capital city founded close to the site of the historical city of Carthage (5) |
| ARABICA | Oldest cultivated variety of the coffee bean, supposedly discovered by Ethiopian goatherd Kaldi in the 9th century (7) |
| EXPLOSIVE | Gunpowder, in use by the 9th century in China and the 13th century in the West, was the first known |
| QUEBEC | On July 3, 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec, which is today the capital of this Canadian province |
| ICHOR | According to Greek mythology this fluid is said to flow in the veins of the Gods. (5) |
| SAMARIA | Ancient town, made the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel by Omri in the ninth century BC (7) |
