Damascus is the oldest city in the world. Today it acts as a cultural and religious centre of Levant. There are about 2 million people living in that city. Damascus is located to the southwest of Syria.
The other oldest cities in the world are:
- Byblos in Lebanon dated to 5000 BCE
- Varansi in India dated to 3000 BCE
- Medinat Al-Fayoum in Egypt dated at 4000 BCE
- Gaziantep in Turkey dated to 3650 BCE
- Hebron in Israel is dated at 3500 BCE
- Athens in Greece dates to about 3000 BCE
- Arbil and Kirkuk in Iraq have dates of 2300 and earlier than 3000 BCE
- Adana in Turkey and Jerusalem in Israel were established around 2000 BCE
- Hama in Syria was established before 2000 BCE
- Luxor/Thebes in Egypt also dates to 2000 BCE
- Jaffa, Israel, and Aleppo, Syria are both about 3800 years old.
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