Meerut is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, northern India, located 70km northeast of New Delhi. It came under Mughal rule in the sixteenth century and saw Sikh and Maratha invasions in the eighteenth century.

Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.

Designed by Sydney Smirke and located at the center of the Great Court of the British Museum (Bloomsbury, London), the Reading Room is made of cast iron, concrete, and glass.

Scutari, now Üsküdar, is a district and municipality in Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus.