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  2. List of oldest continuously inhabited cities - Wikipedia

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    The city corresponds to the ancient Assyrian city of Arbela. Settlement at Erbil can be dated back to possibly 6000 BC, but not urban life until c. 2300. [85] [86] Ankara: Anatolia Turkey: c. 2000 BC [87] The oldest settlements in and around the city center of Ankara belonged to the Hattic civilization which existed during the Bronze Age. Jaffa ...

  3. List of ancient Greek cities - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.

  4. Historical urban community sizes - Wikipedia

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    This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods.

  5. Timeline of ancient history - Wikipedia

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    The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...

  6. History of the United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    Congress Voting Independence, by Robert Edge Pine, depicts the Second Continental Congress voting in 1776.. Although one can trace the history of the Congress of the United States to the First Continental Congress, which met in the autumn of 1774, [2] the true antecedent of the United States Congress was convened on May 10, 1775, with twelve colonies in attendance.

  7. List of historical Greek countries and regions - Wikipedia

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    The East Roman Empire retained its status as the power at least in the Mediterranean world until the 12th century. Amongst its impacts was the spread of Christianity to Eastern Europe and the Slavs , the halting of the Persian, Slavic and Arab expansions towards Europe and the preservation of a significant body of the cultural heritage of Greek ...

  8. Political history of the world - Wikipedia

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    The coast of East Africa contained a string of trading cities connected to kingdoms in the interior. [97] The Horn of Africa was dominated by the Ethiopian Empire by the 13th and 14th centuries. [97] South from it were the Swahili cities of Mogadishu, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Kilwa, and Sofala. [98] By the 14th century, Kilwa had conquered most of ...

  9. Athenian democracy - Wikipedia

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    Although Athens is the most familiar of the democratic city-states in ancient Greece, it was not the only one, nor was it the first; multiple other city-states adopted similar democratic constitutions before Athens. [2] [3] By the late 4th century BC, as many as half of the over one thousand existing Greek cities might have been democracies. [4]

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