Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in the World

[Traitorfish]

Saw this on ExtraLife, and thought it may be of interest:
List of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in the World

 

[sydhe]

I find the note on Jericho to be odd: "Evidence indicates that the city was abandoned several times, and later expanded and rebuilt several times." If it was abandoned several times, it hasn't been continuously inhabited.

 

[Tee Kay]

Generally, Dimashq is considered the oldest continuously inhabited city.

 

[Italian Celtic]

Strange there aren't italian cities

 

[Tee Kay]

Not surprising. Cities started appearing in Italy (I mean actual cities, not hamlets or villages) around 1500BC, while cities started appearing in the Middle East around 8000BC.

 

[Mirc]

Generally, Dimashq is considered the oldest continuously inhabited city.

I thought it was the oldest city continuously a capital.

 

[Italian Celtic]

ancient italian were late compared with Middle East and Greece
but they were surely in advance in comparison to rest of Europe

 

[Verbose]

Generally, Dimashq is considered the oldest continuously inhabited city.

It allegedly contains the world's oldest city street at least — "The Street Called Straight", which iirc is crooked and winding as hell, with several layers of buildings superimposed on oneanother.

 

[Maimonides]

Interesting list. Good find.

Jericho has not been continuously inhabited, though. While there are people living close to it today, the original site is just an archaeological dig & the archaeology shows the city was destroyed several times. IIRC, it's the earliest place known where people settled permanently to conduct agriculture-a major world heritage site.

I'm suprised there aren't more Egyptian sites on that list. I guess they weren't continuously occupied.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Not surprising. Cities started appearing in Italy (I mean actual cities, not hamlets or villages) around 1500BC, while cities started appearing in the Middle East around 8000BC.

What city in italy was founded around 1500BC?

 

[Italian Celtic]

Etruscan cities in center Italy
Sardinian cities in Sardinia isle

 

[-0blivion-]

I would argue from my readings that Etruscan cities were a bit later than that, more like 1200-1000 BC at the earliest, but im definitely not an expert on the subject.

 

[Italian Celtic]

the problem is that the oldest cities in Italy were founded by foreign people
for example Turin was founded by the Egyptians in the 1500 b.c.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Turin was founded in the very late republica.

 

[Mirc]

^ That's what I knew too.

 

[Italian Celtic]

turin as city was founded by romans
turin as centre of cult of egyptian god Api was founded in 1500 b.c.(as legend says)

 

[Adler17]

Why are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in? I thought they were destroyed and not revived?

Adler

 

[luiz]

the problem is that the oldest cities in Italy were founded by foreign people
for example Turin was founded by the Egyptians in the 1500 b.c.

The Egyptians settled in northern Italy?

That would be odd, to say the least.

 

[Rossiya]

the problem is that the oldest cities in Italy were founded by foreign people
for example Turin was founded by the Egyptians in the 1500 b.c.

That can't be quite right. You sure that it wasn't the Greeks?

 

[scy12]

Athens created by 3500 . It is mentioned in the scripts that Athenians , Achaioi where the first of all Greeks . The first to adopt - evolve into Greek culture while all neighboring cities where then Barbarians.