List of cities of the ancient Near East

The ancient Near East
Regions and states
Fertile Crescent Mesopotamia Uruk period Sumer Akkadian Empire Assyria Babylonia Egypt Ancient Egypt Old Kingdom Middle Kingdom New Kingdom Ptolemaic Kingdom Roman Egypt Persia Achaemenid Empire Elam Medes Parthian Empire Anatolia Hattians Hittites Hurrians Luwians Neo-Hittite states Phrygians Urartu The Levant Ebla Qatna Yamhad Mari Amorites Canaan Ancient Israel Phoenicia Neo-Hittite states Aram Nabatea Seleucid Empire Coele-Syria Roman Syria
Archaeological periods
Chronology Copper Age Bronze Age Bronze Age collapse Iron Age
Languages
Akkadian Aramaic Eblaite Egyptian * Hieroglyphs Elamite Hebrew Cuneiform script Hittite Hurrian Luwian Persian Phoenician Phoenician Alphabet Sumerian Ugaritic Ugaritic alphabet Urartian
Literature
Egyptian Babylonian Hittite Persian Sumerian Ugaritic
Mythology
Religions of the ancient Near East Babylonian Hittite Iranian Mesopotamian Egyptian Levantine
Other topics
Archaeology Genetic history Cradle of civilization Ancient Near East conflicts Egypt Egyptology Mathematics Technology Medicine| Assyria Assyriology Law Babylonia Astronomy Law Mathematics Cuneiform law Early Alphabet Hittite laws History of the ancient Levant History of the Middle East Timeline List of cities
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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 Bronze Age Near East housed several tens of thousands of people. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age, with some 30,000 inhabitants, was the largest city of the time by far. Ur in the Middle Bronze Age is estimated to have had some 65,000 inhabitants; Babylon in the Late Bronze Age similarly had a population of some 50,000–60,000. Niniveh had some 20,000–30,000, reaching 100,000 only in the Iron Age (around 700 BC).

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