List of cities of the ancient Near East

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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.

The largest cities of the

Niniveh had some 20,000–30,000, reaching 100,000 only in the Iron Age
(around 700 BC).

In

Hatti". The KI 𒆠 determinative is used following place names (toponyms) in both Sumerian and Akkadian.[2][3]

Mesopotamia

Lower Mesopotamia

Map of Mesopotamian cities in modern-day Iraq, Syria and Iran.
Map of Mesopotamia.

(ordered from north to south)

Upper Mesopotamia

Map of Syria in the second millennium BC

(ordered from north to south)

Iran

Anatolia (Turkey)

Settlements of Bronze Age Anatolia, based on Hittite records.

(ordered from north to south)

The Levant

Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa, separated by just a few miles of the Red Sea, have a history of related settlements, especially near the coast

Nubia

Horn of Africa

Egypt

See also

References

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