Designated settlement chosen people since ancient times.Until now, our planet preserved settlement, founded many years ago.The most surprising is that not all of them abandoned.Many of them still continue to boil life.Such cities are very popular, attracting amazing sights and sacred places, which are, as a rule, there are many.They are imbued with the spirit of history, and it is very attracted.The question of their true age is constantly discussed, and scientists are often faced with conflicting evidence.
is believed that the oldest city on earth - is Jericho.Presumably, it was founded in 9000 BCIts geographical location - the country of Palestine.It is the oldest city on earth, known in our days.The excavations have revealed archaeological remains preserved are 20 settlements.They account for more than 11,000 years.This is the oldest city in the world was founded in the Jordan River on its western bank.Today, there are about 20,000 people.
No less interesting is the city founded by the Phoenicians Hebe.Its present name he got from here vozivshih papyrus Greeks, and eventually he was given the name of the Bible.It is the oldest city in Lebanon.Since it was founded consider 5000 BCIts main tourist attractions are the Church of St. John the Baptist, the fortress Byblos, the Phoenician temples.All of them were built by the Crusaders in the 12th century.It attracts the attention of visitors and the old city's medieval walls.
Being the most populated city in Syria, Aleppo (Halab) has 4.4 million people who live in it today.It is the ancient city, which has such a large number of residents.It was founded as early as 4300 BCToday on the site of the ancient town are modern buildings, administrative and residential buildings, which greatly hinders produce here archeological excavations.This place has a very interesting story.Over the centuries, the power belonged here Hittites, Assyrians later, then the Greeks and Persians.At various times there lived the Romans, Byzantines and Arabs.This Syrian city has repeatedly been subjected to raids and conquests of the Crusaders, then it encroached Mongols and the Ottoman Empire.
Another unique city - the capital of Syria, Damascus.Its base is accounted for at the same time as the foundation of Aleppo.In some sources it is listed as the oldest inhabited city in the world.It is believed that people could still inhabit its 10,000 BCThis fact is disputed to this day.It is interesting that in ancient times have arrived here Aramaeans smashed a network of canals that form the basis of modern water supply and in our days.In this way he became one of the most important settlements in this country.
Damascus also attacked from the outside.His army won the Great, the Romans, they owned the Arabs and Turks.Damascus is very popular with tourists, because there remained a large number of historical sights.
capital of the Elamite Empire, Susa, was founded in 4200 BCIn Iran, it is the most ancient city.He won at the time the Assyrians, and later, during the reign of Cyrus the Great, it came into the possession of the royal dynasty of Persian Ahmenidov.Here, the action is the oldest play of Aeschylus' Persians ", which occupies an important place in the history of theater.The city currently has 65,000 inhabitants and is called Shusha.
most ancient city in Egypt - Sohag it.In ancient times, here was revered god Sobek, depicted with the head of a crocodile.Year of foundation of the city is 4000 BCIt is situated to the south-west of Cairo.Modern Fayoum known several large bazaars, mosques and baths.Near it are the pyramids of Hawara and Lehin.
town, founded about 4000 BC, considered the Bulgarian Plovdiv and Lebanon Sidon.Plovdiv attracts numerous ancient monuments, and Sidon is of historical interest, since it is here that began the development of the great Mediterranean empire of the Thracians.
