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The origin of Lahore can be traced back somewhere between 1st and 7th centuries A.D. [138] One of the oldest cities of South Asia. The first document that mentions Lahore by name is the Hudud al-'Alam ("The Regions of the World"), written by an unknown author in 982 AD.
Jericho is among the oldest cities in the world, [7] [8] [9] and it is also the city with the oldest known defensive wall. [10] Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11,000 years (to 9000 BCE), [ 11 ] [ 12 ] almost to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch of ...
Khujand [a], sometimes spelled Khodjent and formerly known as Leninabad [b] from 1936 to 1991, is the second-largest city of Tajikistan and the capital of Tajikistan's northernmost Sughd province. Khujand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, dating back about 2,500 years to the Persian Empire.
Today it remains one of the largest mosques in Central Asia, and can welcome some 10,000 worshippers at a time. And then there’s Timur’s grandson, Ulug Bheg.
Samarkand has a multicultural and plurilingual history that was significantly modified by the process of national delimitation in Central Asia. Many inhabitants of the city are native or bilingual speakers of the Tajik language, [10] [11] whereas Uzbek is the official language and Russian is also widely used in the public sphere, as per ...
It is a major cultural, religious and economic centre of Punjab region, Multan is one of the oldest cities of Asia with a history stretching deep into antiquity. Multan was part of the Achaemenid Empire of Iran in the early 6th century BC. The ancient city was besieged by Alexander the Great during the Mallian Campaign. [6]
The modern city of Sayram celebrated its 3,000th year [10] of continued habitation in 1999. Sayram is a city on the frontier between irrigated farmland and the pastures of the Dasht-i Qipchaq. It has a long history of commercial and political importance as a border town and has been the site of numerous conquests and reconquests.
It is one of the oldest cities in Russia, [11] being first mentioned in the 9th century. The city lies along the Volkhov River just downstream from its outflow from Lake Ilmen and is situated on the M10 federal highway connecting Moscow and Saint Petersburg. UNESCO recognized Novgorod as a World Heritage Site in 1992.