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The city of Hangzhou was founded about 2,200 years ago during the Qin dynasty. Kashgar: Shule Kingdom China: 2nd century BC The city of Kashgar was the capital of the Iranic Shule Kingdom and served as a major hub of the Silk Road. [150] Pyeongyang (as Wanggeom-seong) Gojoseon North Korea: 194 BC Built as the capital city of Gojoseon in 194 BC ...
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This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
Aug. 17—100 Years Ago Aug. 17, 1923 In a bare whitewashed room, in Montevue Hospital, the county's poorhouse, with windows looking out on the vivid sunshine of a Frederick County fall day, and ...
Aug. 27—100 Years Ago Aug. 27, 1923 Fifteen thousand persons, it is estimated, members of Odd Fellows lodges and Rebekah Assemblies, from practically every lodge in the State, attended the ...
Jul. 13—100 Years Ago July 13, 1923 Whether the printing which is being done by prison labor at the Maryland penitentiary is encroaching upon the sphere of the regular printing establishments ...
[25] [26] The second place to show urban characteristics in West Africa was Dia, in present-day Mali, from 800 BC. [25] [26] Both Dhar Tichitt and Dia were founded by the same people: the Soninke, who would later also found the Ghana Empire. [26] Another ancient site, Jenné-Jeno, in what is today Mali, has been dated to the third century BCE ...
Jul. 26—100 Years Ago July 26, 1923 Long and searching investigation into the death of Mrs. Grace Simmons Kepner at the home of her father, Ezra Houck Sr., near this city, on June 18, ended ...