The 10 Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities


	The 10 Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities
cakebelly
7-12-2009 3:17 PM
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cakebelly says:
Each city has a paragraph or two of more info at source
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7-12-2009 3:53 PM
wiganfootie
Fantastic and a great site,CHEERS
7-15-2009 9:31 PM
tanyamm
Just imagine talking to someone who's family has always lived in one of those places. Talk about having a sense of belonging.
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Indeed, once nomadic tribes began to settle in one location, they saw that it was good, became fruitful, and multiplied. Decades, centuries and millennia passed while war, climate change and human migration all took their toll. Relatively few <A href="http://weburbanist.com/2007/08/30/urban-abandonments-part-two-7-more-deserted-wonders-of-the-modern-world/">ancient cities</A> have managed to survive the test of time. Here are 10 that have not only survived, but continue to thrive.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Damascus, Syria</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/159C5096-1B5D-4010-9A8E-96FE181E92F6" alt="old_city_1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/">12,000 years</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/F4984940-43A6-4CFD-A46A-05CA87400ED9" alt="old_city_1b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Jericho, West Bank</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/E5913345-D779-4454-B148-7484D93B2D0A" alt="old_city_2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/">nearly 9,000 years</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/0A45157E-C620-4A8D-BBAB-9155C80D9E21" alt="old_city_2b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Susa, Iran</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/7C0B77B9-E223-46DE-BDA8-1A2B807CF111" alt="old_city_3" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"> 8000 BCE,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/541FE5D2-5CAB-4CDA-B6AB-15806E036E6B" alt="old_city_3b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Plovdiv, Bulgaria</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/97EDB5C9-60A9-45F7-B53B-C8C42A16A2A8" alt="old_city_4" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/2CB3CCDA-6AFE-4DC7-AFDC-8B970FF1A79A" alt="old_city_4b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Jerusalem, Israel</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/60669DBE-D04A-4671-B869-359B99264FD9" alt="old_city_5" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/">Holy to a number of the world’s leading religions, 5,000-year-old Jerusalem was already settled centuries before any of them had their tenets put to paper, papyrus</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/AD4C6484-F1F1-417C-889C-7B80E7963144" alt="old_city_5b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Tyre, Lebanon</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/1FEC0DCC-BF2A-4260-949A-446924A249F2" alt="old_city_6a" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/536B0434-ADAA-40DB-96E4-AE1CA1D5F2CD" alt="old_city_6b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/D6D8A5FF-BD44-4682-B39A-3F18F38AE441" alt="old_city_6c" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Athens, Greece</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/4B105B46-FB76-4BA6-9D0A-EA33172B02B6" alt="old_city_7a" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"> <A href="http://esn.cs.teiath.gr/esn-satellite-2.3/?q=node/8">Athens</A> has been lived in for approximately 3,400 years.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/28B78811-B4C3-40ED-8CA2-FE58FA89DB34" alt="old_city_7b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Lisbon, Portugal</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/8B04DA91-90E7-4436-BE33-95DAF00F6E97" alt="old_city_9b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/07/09/senior-city-zens-the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/"><H4>Cholula, Mexico</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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