Oldest cities around the world - Young World Club 
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Oldest cities around the world

  • POSTED ON: 24 Jan, 2018
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Cities have played an important role in the advance of civilisation. Here are some present-day cities from the time period over which they have been continuously inhabited. There is always a dispute on how “old” they are, and the variations on the definition of a “city” as well as “continuously inhabited”, but they’ve always had cultural or religious significance. Let’s take a look…

Damascus (Syria) is often claimed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.Aleppo (Syria) and its surrounding regions comprise one of the oldest known human settlements in the world.Athens (Greece) has recorded history beginning in 1400 BC. It goes back long before the days of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.Plovdiv (Bulgaria) is one of the oldest European cities. Plovdiv was originally a Thracian settlement known as Philippopolis to the Greeks, and was a major city for the Romans.Jerusalem holds a unique place in history as the nexus of several of the world's great religions and is still of historical importance to Israel and Palestine.Varanasi (India) has had recent excavations at two sites - Aktha and Ramnagar, showing it to be from around 1800 BC.