Oldest City in the World?

Question

For more than 3,000 years this city has been in continuous existence. What city is it?

Answer 1

Well lets see.. Damascus - oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.... Varanasi - oldest city in the world... Caral - oldest city in the new world.
Guess you can take your pick as it would be how you want to look at it, but I would pick Damascus.

Answer 2

lady, from one lady to a unique, there is no Palestine yet, so there are not any Palestinian citys, there's a Jerico, and that is between the oldest. some say Damascus is the international's oldest continually inhabited city with comments going decrease back a minimum of three,500 years. this is the capital of Syria and has a million.4 million inhabitants. Damascus is placed on a plateau 680 metres above sea element. even as present day Damascus is a regularly occurring center eastern city, this is been favourite for hundreds of years and typically known because the 'Pearl of the East'. .

Answer 3

"List of oldest continuously inhabited cities
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of the oldest, still surviving, towns and cities in the world. There are some points of contention here and care should be taken when using the list below. The cities have been listed because either the archaeological record has shown, or documents have supported the claim, that the settlement was in existence at the time given. However, presence here should in no way indicate that there is total consensus over the date the city was founded - differences in opinion can result from different definitions of "city" (usually relating to the population size" as well as "continuously inhabited" (relating to changing population size; changes in location and changes in name). Additionally, where an approximate date has been given, the date was treated as the lower end of the estimate for the purposes of the table.

The definition of "continuously inhabited city" for the purposes of this list was that there must be evidence to show that the city had been constantly settled by a population of more than 250 for the entire time since the date shown. This is different from there simply being 'evidence of human occupation in the area' and that it may well be different from the numerous other definitions of the term 'city' that are in use. In spite of all this, several cities listed here (Varanasi, Damascus, Arbil, Byblos and Hebron) each claim to be 'the oldest city in the world'. An attempt has been made to discuss the validity of each of their claims alongside their stated position in the table.

Rank Name Location Approximate Time Founded
1 Byblos Lebanon 5000 BC
2 Susa Iran (Persia) 4200 BC (As a city, up to 7500 years of inhabitation)
3 Damascus Syria More than 3,000 BC
4 Medinat Al-Fayoum (as Crocodilopolis or Arsinoe) Egypt 4,000 BC
5 Gaziantep Turkey 3,650 BC
6 Hebron West Bank, Palestinian territories 3,500 BC
7 Athens Greece 3,000 BC
8 Delhi India 2,500 BC
9 Arbil Iraq Before 2,300 BC
10 Kirkuk (As 'Arrapha') Iraq 2,200-3,000 BC
11 Adana Turkey c. 2,000 BC
12 Hama (as Hamath) Syria Before 2,000 BC
13 Jerusalem Israel 2,000 BC
14 Luxor (as Thebes/Weset) Egypt c. 2,000 BC
15 Jaffa Israel 1,800 BC
16 Aleppo Syria 1,800 BC
17 Kutaisi Georgia 1,700 BC
18 Cholula Mexico 1,700 BC
19 Asyut Egypt Before 1,500 BC
20 Gaza Gaza Strip Before 1,500 BC"

Answer 4

Damascus

Answer 5

Jericho

Answer 6

Jericho. the sight being occupied for about 11000 years

Answer 7

Bergama (Pergamon),in Turkey.

Answer 8

Athens?