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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.
The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global empires.
This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1] The list is for sites intended for permanent settlement and does not include fortresses and other locations of intermittent habitation. a capital of ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece, including colonies and contacted peoples; Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples; Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, including successor states; Ottoman Empire, including successor states; Septinsular Republic; Modern Greece and Cyprus, and also what remains of treaty Greek minorities in Turkey
A location in Slavic folk mythology related to witchcraft. Baltia: An island of amber somewhere in northern Europe. Biringan city: A mythical city that is said to invisibly lie between Gandara, Tarangnan, and Pagsanghan in Samar province of the Philippines. Biringan means "the black city" or the city of the Unknown in Waray. Brittia
Tyre - One of the two leading-city states of Phoenicia and one of the most important ports in ancient Phoenicia, and Lebanon today. Sydon - One of the two leading city-states of Phoenicia; Ampi; Amia; Arqa; Baalbek; Botrys; Berut; Gebal - One of the oldest sites of civilization; Sarepta; Tripoli, Lebanon
Polis [e] (pl.: poleis) [f] means 'city' in Ancient Greek. The Modern Greek word πόλη (polē) is a direct descendant of the ancient word and roughly means 'city' or an urban place. However, the Ancient Greek term that specifically meant the totality of urban buildings and spaces was asty (ἄστυ), rather than polis.