Aleppo

City · 5,001 BCE · in Europe

Capital of Hamdanid Emirates (936–1004), Zengid dynasty (1139–1250), French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon (1923–1923).

Adana (6,001 BCE): Capital of Ramadanid Emirate (1385–1515).
Jerusalem (4,001 BCE): Capital of Kingdom of Israel (1000 BCE–930 BCE), Kingdom of Judah (900 BCE–701 BCE), Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291), and 1 more.
Anshan Persia (4,000 BCE – 675 CE): Capital of Elam (2700 BCE–601 BCE).
Thebes (3,200–801 BCE): Capital of Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2000 BCE–1782 BCE), New Kingdom of Egypt (1500 BCE–801 BCE).
Athens (7,001 BCE): Capital of Duchy of Athens (1206–1311), Kingdom of Greece (1945–1966), Greek junta (1967–1974), and 1 more.
Kozan (3,000 BCE): Capital of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (1099–1374).
Tyre (2,750–501 BCE): Capital of Phoenicia (1150 BCE–501 BCE).
Assur (2,500–609 BCE): Capital of Assyria (1800 BCE–901 BCE), Neo-Assyrian Empire (900 BCE–609 BCE).
Babylon (2,201 BCE – 1 CE): Capital of Babylonia (1800 BCE–601 BCE), Neo-Babylonian Empire (600 BCE–539 BCE), Achaemenid Empire (550 BCE–330 BCE).
Damascus (2,001 BCE): Capital of Umayyad Caliphate (661–744), Zengid dynasty (1139–1250), French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon (1923–1945), and 4 more.

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Eridu (c. 5,400–600 BCE): Regarded by the Sumerians as the first city; its temple to the god Enki was rebuilt many times from the Ubaid period onward.
Uruk (c. 5,000 BCE – c. 700 CE): Sumerian city on the Euphrates that by about 3100 BCE was probably the largest city in the world, centre of the first urban civilization.
Ain Ghazal (c. 7,250–5,000 BCE): Large Neolithic town near Amman, known for its lime-plaster human statues, among the oldest large-scale depictions of the human figure.
Ubaid period (c. 6,500–3,800 BCE): Prehistoric period of southern Mesopotamia with irrigated farming, large villages, temples and painted pottery that spread across the Near East.
Halaf culture (c. 6,100–5,100 BCE): Neolithic culture of northern Mesopotamia and Syria known for elaborate polychrome pottery and round tholos buildings.
Samarra culture (c. 5,500–4,800 BCE): Chalcolithic culture of central Mesopotamia with finely painted pottery and some of the earliest irrigation agriculture.
Faiyum Neolithic (Faiyum A) (c. 5,200–4,200 BCE): Among the earliest farming communities in Egypt, growing emmer and barley and herding animals on the shores of the Faiyum lake.