Which is the oldest inhabited city?

Answer 1

i think the oldest inhabited city is makkah but the oldest inhabited country is egypt

Answer 2

lady, from one lady to a various, there's no Palestine yet, so there are not any Palestinian citys, there's a Jerico, and it is between the oldest. some say Damascus is the international's oldest continuously inhabited city with comments going returned a minimum of three,500 years. it is the capital of Syria and has a million.4 million inhabitants. Damascus is located on a plateau 680 metres above sea point. together as cutting-edge Damascus is a typical center jap city, it is been ordinary for hundreds of years and in many situations talked approximately because of the fact the 'Pearl of the East'. .

Answer 3

Byblos, Lebanon. It was founded in 5,000 BCE.

Damascus ranks 4th.

"Excavations at Tell Ramad on the outskirts of the city have demonstrated that Damascus has been inhabited as early as 8000 to 10,000 BC. It is due to this that Damascus is considered to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world. However, Damascus is not documented as an important city until the coming of the Aramaeans..."

Answer 4

Wikipedia strikes again! Parts of the walls of Jericho go back to 10000BC(E) making it the oldest inhabited city of which we know. I agree that there are places in the Far East (India , China, the Malay Peninsula, etc) that need further study.

Answer 5

Aleppo is the oldest continuously inhabited city of the world and is located in Syria. FACT

Answer 6

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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, Aleppo, 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 ↓ Note(s) ↓
1. Byblos Lebanon 5,000 BCE[1] Carbon-dating tests have set the age of earliest settlement around 7000±80[2]
2. Susa Iran (Persia) 4200 BCE[3] As a city, up to 7500 years of inhabitation
3. Metsamor Armenia 4,000 BCE or earlier[4][5]
4. Damascus Syria 4,000 BCE[6]-3000 BCE[7] Excavations at Tell Ramad on the outskirts of the city have demonstrated that Damascus has been inhabited as early as 8000 to 10,000 BC.[citation needed] It is due to this that Damascus is considered to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world. However, Damascus is not documented as an important city until the coming of the Aramaeans which is the date used in the table above. See reference for presence of urban life among cattle herders at this date — also due to land fertility and constant water source.
5. Sidon Lebanon 4,000 BCE and perhaps, earlier[8] There is evidence that Sidon was inhabited as long ago as 4000 B.C., and perhaps, as early as Neolithic times (6000 - 4000 B.C.)[8]
6. Medinat Al-Fayoum (as Crocodilopolis or Arsinoe) Egypt 4,000 BCE[9]
7. Gaziantep Turkey 3,650 BCE This is disputed, although most modern scholars place the Classical Antiochia ad Taurum at Gaziantep, some maintain that it was in fact located at Aleppo. Furthermore, that the two cities occupy the same site is far from established fact (see Gaziantep). Assuming this to be the case, the date of founding the present site would be in the region of 1,000 BCE. (see Gaziantep)
8. Hebron West Bank 3,500 BCE
9. Istanbul (many other names) Turkey 3,500 BCE Artifacts dating back to 3500–5000 BCE in Fikirtepe (see History of Istanbul)
10. Beirut Lebanon 3,000 BCE or earlier[10]
11. Varanasi India 3,000 BCE or earlier
12. Harappa Pakistan 3,300 BCE
13. Athens Greece 3,000 BCE[11]
14. Baalbek Lebanon 3,000 BC
15. Tyre Lebanon 2,750 BCE[12]
16. Xinzheng China 2,700 BCE
17. Mohenjo-daro Pakistan 2,600 BCE
18. Delhi India 2,500 BCE[13]
19. Arbil Iraq 2,300 BCE or earlier[14]
20. Kirkuk (as 'Arrapha') Iraq 3,000-2,200 BCE[15]
21. Adana Turkey 2,000 BCE
22. Balkh (as Bactra) Afghanistan 2,000 BCE Balkh is one of the oldest cities of the region and is considered to be the first city to which the Indo-Iranian Aryan tribes moved from the North of Amu Darya, approximately 2000 BCE.[16]
23. Hama (as Hamath) Syria 2,000 BCE or earlier
24. Jerusalem Israel 2,000 BCE
25. Luxor (as Thebes/Weset) Egypt 2,000 BCE
26. Jaffa Israel 1,800 BCE
27. Aleppo Syria 1,800 BCE
28. Kutaisi Georgia 1,700 BCE[17]
29. Cholula Mexico 1,700 BCE
30. Asyut Egypt 1,500 BCE or earlier
31. Gaza Gaza Strip 1,500 BCE or earlier
32. Tripoli, Lebanon Lebanon 1,400 BC

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Answer 7

Byblos, Lebanon

However Damascus is the oldest continually inhabitied city...

Answer 8

The city of Damascus is the oldest inhibited city in the history of mankind.

Answer 9

According to Wikipedia, it is Byblos, 5000, BCE. However, the list after that does not include any in The far east until 2700, BCE. I believe that more archaeological work needs to be done in that area.

Answer 10

Byblos, Lebanon. Established ca. 5000 BCE.