Year	European Capital of Culture	Country	Conferences before	Conferences after	No of hosted conferences(DBLP)
1985	Athens	Greece	0	176	176
1986	Florence	Italy	2	131	133
1987	Amsterdam	Netherlands	1	199	200
1988	Berlin	East Germany	26	311	337
1989	Paris	France	11	426	437
1990	Glasgow	Unites Kingdom	1	39	40
1991	Dublin	Ireland	4	106	110
1992	Madrid	Spain	2	160	162
1993	Antwerp	Belgium	3	18	21
1994	Lisbon	Portugal	3	216	219
1995	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1	37	38
1996	Copenhagen	Denmark	13	108	121
1997	Thessaloniki	Greece	1	53	54
1998	Stockholm	Sweden	17	72	89
1999	Weimar	Germany	0	7	7
2000	Avignon	France	1	14	15
2000	Bergen	Norway	2	19	21
2000	Bologna	Italy	0	52	52
2000	Brussels	Belgium	13	60	73
2000	Helsinki	Finland	3	68	71
2000	Krakow	Poland	1	53	54
2000	Prague	Czech Republic	17	192	209
2000	Reykjavik	Iceland	1	36	37
2000	Santiago de Compostela/td>	Spain	1	9	10
2001	Rotterdam	Netherlands	2	10	12
2001	Port	Portugal	7	180	187
2002	Bruges	Belgium	8	13	21
2002	Salamanca	Spain	0	60	60
2003	Graz	Austria	7	54	61
2004	Genoa	Italy	3	23	26
2004	Lille	France	5	24	29
2005	Cork	Iraland	6	12	18
2006	Patras	Greece	1	22	23
2007	Sibiu	Romania	0	2	2
2007	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	7	31	38
2008	Liverpool	United Kingdom	4	15	19
2008	Stavanger	Norway	0	1	1
2009	Vilnius	Lithuania	3	13	16
2009	Linz	Austria	26	24	50
2010	Essen	Germanay	9	22	31
2010	Istanbul	Turkey	28	100	128
2010	Pecs	Hungary	0	0	0
2011	Turku	Finland	21	11	32
2011	Tallinn	Estonia	20	35	55
2012	Guimaraes	Portugal	9	15	24
2012	Maribor	Slovenia	12	8	20
2013	Marseille	France	20	14	34
2013	Kosice	Slovakia	3	1	4
2014	Riga	Latvia	21	4	25
2014	Umea	Sweden	3	3	6
2015	Mons	Belgium	2	2	4
2015	Plzen	Czech Republic	14	2	16
2016	San Sebastian	Spain	9	4	13
2016	Wroclaw	Poland	40	4	44
2017	Aarhus	Denmark	44	4	48
2017	Paphos	Cyprus	69	0	69