Baghdad comes in at 1137 years.Macbeth wrote:
Wouldn't have thought Portugal would have a city in there.
Could of sworn Baghdad was really old also.
Yeah had to check that one.Kmarion wrote:
Baghdad comes in at 1137 years.Macbeth wrote:
Wouldn't have thought Portugal would have a city in there.
Could of sworn Baghdad was really old also.
I think at 2000 years it still falls short.Macbeth wrote:
Yeah had to check that one.Kmarion wrote:
Baghdad comes in at 1137 years.Macbeth wrote:
Wouldn't have thought Portugal would have a city in there.
Could of sworn Baghdad was really old also.
Surprised this city didn't list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningbo
Precisely.. it would be impossible to track the villages as opposed to a city that was officially founded.. A list like this is never perfect.S.Lythberg wrote:
I'm willing to bet that there are villages in Africa that are even older, but not large enough to qualify
Kmarion wrote:
I think at 2000 years it still falls short.Macbeth wrote:
Yeah had to check that one.Kmarion wrote:
Baghdad comes in at 1137 years.
Surprised this city didn't list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningbo
6800 years beats out a few of those.Ningbo was one of China's oldest cities, with a history dating back to 4800 B.C
Maybe because it was not called Ningbo. The area now known as Ningbo was once part of several other areas including ‘Yin’, ‘Mao’ and ‘Gouzhang’. It wasn't until 1381 that the city got the name Ningbo. I don't know if that is reason enough to exclude it from the list, but I understand the reason it may have been.Macbeth wrote:
Kmarion wrote:
I think at 2000 years it still falls short.Macbeth wrote:
Yeah had to check that one.
Surprised this city didn't list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningbo6800 years beats out a few of those.Ningbo was one of China's oldest cities, with a history dating back to 4800 B.C
http://english.ningbo.gov.cn/col/col55/index.htmlThe history of Ningbo can be traced back to 7,000 years ago. The discovery of Hemudu Neolithic Culture Ruins proves that Ningbo was one of the first places in the world for cultivating rice. In the Xia Dynasty (about 2,000 B.C.), Ningbo was called ‘Yin’. In the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.), Ningbo was a part of the State of ‘Yue’. In the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), the place called Ningbo today covered ‘Yin’, ‘Mao’ and ‘Gouzhang’, three counties of Kuaiji Shire. In the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), the place was named ‘Mingzhou’. In 821, the local district government moved to the place where three rivers joined and city walls were built, which marked the beginning of the city. In 1381, the 14th year of the period of the Emperor Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.), the city got its current name ‘Ningbo’, which means ‘the calm wave’.
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Do you know that because of that NaS song "I Can"N00bkilla55404 wrote:
Timbuktu?
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Is that a city or a country?Beduin wrote:
Fail if they don't include Yemen
Well, it is a country full of old still inhabited cities, thats for sure. Look it up.1927 wrote:
Is that a city or a country?Beduin wrote:
Fail if they don't include Yemen
Dont really want to.Beduin wrote:
Well, it is a country full of old still inhabited cities, thats for sure. Look it up.1927 wrote:
Is that a city or a country?Beduin wrote:
Fail if they don't include Yemen
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Possibly Zurich (grew from bronze age settlements there).FatherTed wrote:
ooooh thats nice
i wonder what the oldest n.euro city is?
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I think it depends on what you classify as northern, i mean London is about 2000 years old and i don't think there were many real cities in europe as they were mostly nomadic tribes i think or communities that were solely farmers.FatherTed wrote:
ooooh thats nice
i wonder what the oldest n.euro city is?
Still inhabited, I'd guess London.FatherTed wrote:
ooooh thats nice
i wonder what the oldest n.euro city is?