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Third-oldest city in Australia. Newcastle: New South Wales Australia: 1804 AD Fourth-oldest city in Australia. Launceston: Tasmania Australia: 1806 AD Fifth-oldest city in Australia. Kerikeri: Northland New Zealand: c. 1818 AD Oldest European-founded settlement in New Zealand. Levuka: Kubuna Fiji: 1820 [265] Oldest European settlement in Fiji ...
First European settlement in the New World during the Age of Discovery. Abandoned by 1500. 1494: ... It is the oldest city among Brazil's current state capitals. [13 ...
Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. 1144 A.D. One of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States, Acoma Pueblo rests on a 365-foot mesa about 60 miles west of Albuquerque.
Among the early Old World cities, ... It is the oldest known civilization in the Americas, flourishing between the 30th century BCE and the 18th century BCE. [32]
Oldest city could refer to: Historical urban community sizes; List of oldest continuously inhabited cities; List of largest cities throughout history
Long before the U.S. declared its independence on July 4, 1776, many European explorers had already founded lasting settlements. These are 10 of the oldest inhabited cities in the U.S. that you ...
Oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the Americas. Present-day capital of the Dominican Republic. 1497 St. John's [6] Newfoundland and Labrador: Canada: Oldest English-founded city in North America, [7] seasonal until c. 1630 1508 Caparra: Puerto Rico: United States 1509 Sevilla la Nueva: Seville, St. Ann's Bay: Jamaica
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 ...