Alexandria. Alhaerie. Atlantis.
Byzantium.
Ctesiphon. Chang'an.
Damascus.
El Dorado. Ecbatana.
Firenze. Ferghana.
Gehenna. Garternay. Golconda.
Heliopolis. Hy Bresail. Hiigara. Hyperborea.
Illyria. Ilos. Ithaca. Irian Jaya.
Jerusalem. Jindabyne.
Khartoum. Khatovar. Karakorum.
Lhasa.
Manzikert. Marrakech. Meridian. Massassauga.
Narayan. Neverwinter.
Obernewtyn.
Persepolis.
Qumran.
Roma. Riga.
Samarkand. Sarnath. Saqqara.
Tashkent. Tripoli. Timbuktu.
Urumqi. Undrentide.
Varanasi.
Wichita. Whampoa.
Xanadu.
Ys. Yerevan.
Zerzura. Zion. Ziguinchor.
A spontaneously combustible being consumed by an inner fire while remaining relatively intact.
—John Howe, defining ‘Phlogiston’
—from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo