1. Scandanavia: As recorded in 1572, a dragon inhabited the area north of Lapland; so desolate was the region that the creature was reduced to a diet of mice.
2. London,England: On November 30, 1222, dragons were seen over the city; the flight preceeded - and may have caused - thunderstorms and severe flooding.
3. Henham, Essex, England: An amphiptere nine feet long was discovered on a hillock near the town in 1669. The terrifying serpent remained in the area for some months but inflicted no actual harm.
4. Ireland: According to legends, Tristan of Lyonesse slew a dragon here in the 11th century. The commentator Giraldus Cambrensis, however, announced in 1188 that Ireland was free of all dragons, possibly because of the intervention of Saint Patrick in the 5th Century.
5. Provence, France: A dragon called the Drac inhabited the Rhone River throughout the 13th Century; the town of Draguignan was named for it, although the worst attacks seemed to have occurred in Beaucaire.
6. Isle Ste. Marguerite, France: This island off the French coast sheltered a dragon during much of the Middle Ages; because of the beast's ferocity, it was often confused with the Tarasque, although, unlike the Tarasque, it had wings.
7. Drachenfels, Germany: Some time before a fortress was built here in the 12th Century, this mountain hid a dragon that subsisted, it was said, on a diet of young women.
8. Sanctogoarin and Neidenburg Germany: The naturalist Edward Topsell wrote in 1608 that Sanctogoarin was plagued by a dragon whose flights caused fires; the dragon of Neidenburg poisoned wells by bathing in them.
9. Bonn, Germany: The Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi had in his collection a lindworm killed near Bonn in 1572.
10. Switzerland: Christopher Schorer. the Prefect of the canton of Solothurn, reported the sightings of a winged mountain dragon near Lucerne in 1619, as well as an encounter in 1654 between a hunter and a dragon. The latter retreated with a rustling of scales into its mountain den.
11. Rome, Italy: The Historia naturalis of Pliny the Elder reported that a dragon killed on Vatican Hill during the reign of Emperor Claudius (died in 54 A.D.) contained the body of a child; centuries later, in 1660, the German Athanatius Kircher examined a dragon killed near the city. He commented on its unusual webbed feet.
12. Kiev, Russia: As recorded in the byliny - legends of heroes - dating from the 11th Century, a dragon called Gorynych terrorized this region for years before the hero Dobrynja slew it.
