Hebron
City · c. 1,000 BCE · in the Middle East
Capital of Kingdom of Israel (1000 BCE–930 BCE).
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- Napata (c. 1,000 BCE – c. 346 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Kush (1000 BCE–346).
- Nokalakevi (1,001 BCE – 700 CE): Capital of Lazica (63 BCE–545), Kingdom of Lazica (638–700).
- Medina (901 BCE): Capital of Rashidun Caliphate (633–656).
- Sidon (c. 1,150–501 BCE): Capital of Phoenicia (1150 BCE–501 BCE).
- Pergamon (801 BCE – 62 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Pontus (281 BCE–62), Kingdom of Pergamon (279 BCE–133 BCE).
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- Yerevan (782 BCE): Capital of Republic of Armenia (1992–today).
- Tengzhou (c. 750 BCE): Capital of Teng (750 BCE–451 BCE).
Around the same time and place
- Phoenician alphabet (c. 1,050 BCE): The Phoenicians developed a 22-letter consonantal alphabet that spread through Mediterranean trade and became the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic scripts.
- 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.
- Mycenaean Greece (c. 1,750–1,050 BCE): Last phase of the Bronze Age in mainland Greece, dominated by palace centres such as Mycenae, Pylos and Tiryns, which collapsed around 1200 BCE.
- Thebes (3,200–801 BCE): Capital of Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2000 BCE–1782 BCE), New Kingdom of Egypt (1500 BCE–801 BCE).
- 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).
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