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Top 5 oldest continuously inhabited cities

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Approximate founding / earliest continuous habitation — Oldest cities

Snapshot · 2026-05-31

  1. 1

    Diyarbakir (Turkey)

    ~8,000 BC

  2. 2

    Aleppo (Syria)

    ~5,000 BC

  3. 3

    Byblos (Lebanon)

    ~5,000 BC

  4. 4

    Sidon (Lebanon)

    ~4,000 BC

  5. 5

    Damascus (Syria)

    ~3,000 BC