Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in the World

What city in Italy was founded around 1500BC?

Rome was, if I remember correctly from my History of Rome course. The date of 753 BCE was purely mythological - nothing of note really happened then, it had long been inhabited but was a long way from prominence.
 
Rome was, if I remember correctly from my History of Rome course. The date of 753 BCE was purely mythological - nothing of note really happened then, it had long been inhabited but was a long way from prominence.

But most of the Old World was inhabited already from prehistoric times anyway. :)
 
i don't remember well
in my opinion i have read a legend about Turin's origins
it told that Turin was founded by Egyptian circa 1500 b.c. as temple of Api
i have to controll...:(

Turin? Really? If the Egyptians were in Italy, I would think that they would be in Naples, or Sicily, but Turin? That's kind of far away. And inland. And close to the Alps. And cold, for some-one from Egypt.
 
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)

I believe all of northern region above etruria was of celtic origin, with the exceptions of Marseille and Emporium...

The name of Turin comes from Tau, a Celtic word that means mountains. Its Italian name, Torino, translates as "little bull"; hence the coat of arms and the symbol of the city. The area was settled by the Taurini in pre-Roman times.

In the first century BC (probably 28 BC), the Romans created a military camp (Castra Taurinorum), later dedicated to Augustus (Augusta Taurinorum). The typical Roman street grid can still be seen in the modern city. Turin reached about 5,000 inhabitants at the time, all living inside the high walls.
 
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.

The first to evolve greek culture where The Minoans, then preceded by The Myceneans, not quite barbarians, Knossos (Crete) and Mycena-citadel/city is dated from 1600 BC, of course it was short-term inhabited compared to todays Athens.
 
The first to evolve greek culture where The Minoans, then preceded by The Myceneans, not quite barbarians, Knossos (Crete) and Mycena-citadel/city is dated from 1600 BC, of course it was short-term inhabited compared to todays Athens.

I am not disputing Miceneans as either being the first or not , but i am reffering to the city of Athens. Since ofcource Athens was a part of the Mycenaean civilization.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece
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Mycenaean Greece, also known as Bronze Age Greece, is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Greece. It lasted from the arrival of the Greeks in the Aegean around 1600 BC to the collapse of their Bronze Age civilization around 1100 BC. It is the historical setting of the epics of Homer and much other Greek mythology. The Mycenaean period takes its name from the archaeological site Mycenae in the northeastern Argolid, in the Peloponnesos of southern Greece. Athens, Pylos, Thebes, and Tiryns are also important Mycenaean sites."

It is believed by several scholars and by of course the Athenians that they where the first Achaioi , the first Greeks. Considering how old Athens is i agree with that proposition.
 
I find it odd that there are no Asian cities on the list. There are certainly some Chinese cities which have been continuously occupied since around 1500 B.C.E.
 
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