All Cities on ArchaeoMap
A directory of every approved city in our archive, grouped by country. Click any name to open its interactive timeline and history. Return to the map →
317 cities · 62 countries · updated 2026-09-20
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Armenia (2)
Artaxata (also Artashat) — 176 BC to 500 AD Dvin (also Dabil) — 3000 BC to 1236 AD
Austria (1)
Vienna (also Vindobona, Wien) — founded 15 AD
Brazil (1)
Rio de Janeiro (also São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro) — founded 1565 AD
Bulgaria (3)
Pazardzhik (also Tatar Bazarcık) — founded 1485 AD Plovdiv (also Eumolpia, Pulpudeva, Philippopolis, Trimontium, Philippoupolis, Filibe) — founded 6000 BC Sofia (also Serdica, Triaditsa, Sredets, Sofya) — founded 500 BC
Cambodia (1)
Angkor (also Yaśodharapura) — founded 802 AD
Canada (1)
Toronto (also York) — founded 1793 AD
China (5)
Anyang (also Yin) — 1300 BC to 1046 BC Beijing (also Ji, Youzhou, Yanjing, Zhongdu, Khanbaliq, Beiping) — founded 1045 BC Hangzhou (also Yuhang, Qiantang, Xifu, Lin'an) — founded 222 BC Hong Kong (also Honkon) — founded 1842 AD Xi'an (also Hao, Xianyang, Chang'an, Jingzhao, Fengyuan) — founded 1046 BC
Croatia (1)
Dubrovnik (also Ragusium, Ragusa) — founded 614 AD
Cyprus (1)
Larnaca (also Kition, Larnax, Salines) — founded 1300 BC
Egypt (6)
Alexandria (also Iskandariyya) — founded 331 BC Cairo (also Fustat, al-Askar, al-Qahira) — founded 642 AD Elkab (also Nekheb, Eileithyiaspolis, el-Kab) — founded 6000 BC Luxor (also Waset, Diospolis Magna, Thebae, al-Uqsur) — founded 3200 BC Memphis (also Inbu-Hedj, Men-nefer, Manf, Mit Rahina) — founded 3100 BC Shedet (also Crocodilopolis, Arsinoë, Madinat al-Faiyum, Faiyum) — founded 4000 BC
France (2)
Marseille (also Massalia, Massilia) — founded 600 BC Paris (also Lutetia Parisiorum) — founded 250 BC
Germany (2)
Berlin — founded 1237 AD Trier (also Augusta Treverorum) — founded 16 BC
Greece (40)
Aigai — 750 BC to 300 AD Akrotiri — 5000 BC to 1620 BC Amphipolis (also Ennea Hodoi) — 500 BC to 800 AD Antikyra — founded 1600 BC Argos — founded 5000 BC Arta (also Ambracia, Narda) — founded 625 BC Athens (also Athenai, Athenae, Athinai, Setines, Athina) — founded 3000 BC Chalcis (also Chalkis, Euripos, Negroponte, Eğriboz, Chalkida) — founded 1300 BC Corinth (also Korinthos, Gördüs) — founded 1600 BC Delos — 3000 BC to 800 AD Delphi (also Pytho, Kastri, Delphoi) — founded 1600 BC Dion (also Malathria) — founded 500 BC Dodona — 2000 BC to 392 AD Eleusis (also Lepsina, Elefsina) — founded 1600 BC Gla — 1300 BC to 1100 BC Heraklion (also Heracleium, Chandax, Candia, Kandiye) — founded 1900 BC Ioannina (also Yanya) — founded 527 AD Kavala (also Neapolis, Christoupolis) — founded 625 BC Knossos — 7000 BC to 700 AD Lindos — founded 1000 BC Medeon — 1600 BC to 600 AD Messene (also Ithome, Messini, Mavromati) — founded 2000 BC Mycenae — 1700 BC to 150 BC Mystras (also Misistra) — founded 1249 AD Nikopolis (also Nicopolis) — 29 BC to 900 AD Olympia — 1100 BC to 426 AD Orchomenos (also Orchomenus, Skripou) — founded 2800 BC Patras (also Patrai, Patrae, Balıbadra, Patra) — founded 1100 BC Pella — 400 BC to 1300 AD Phaistos — 3600 BC to 200 BC Philippi (also Krenides) — 360 BC to 1540 AD Pylos — 1600 BC to 1180 BC Rhodes — founded 408 BC Sparta (also Lacedaemonia, La Cremonie, Palaia Sparti, Sparti) — founded 1100 BC Thebes (also Thebai, Thebae, Thiva, Estives, İstefe) — founded 1400 BC Thermos (also Thermo) — founded 1500 BC Thessaloniki (also Thessalonike, Thessalonica, Salonichi, Selanik) — founded 315 BC Tiryns — 3000 BC to 470 BC Volos (also Iolcus, Demetrias, Golos) — founded 1900 BC Vonitsa — founded 1000 AD
Guatemala (1)
Tikal (also Yax Mutal) — 1000 BC to 900 AD
Honduras (1)
Copán (also Oxwitik) — 426 AD to 900 AD
India (3)
Delhi — founded 736 AD Mumbai (also Bom Bahia, Bombay) — founded 1534 AD Patna (also Pātaliputra) — founded 490 BC
Indonesia (1)
Jakarta (also Jayakarta, Batavia) — founded 1527 AD
Iran (6)
Ganzak (also Gazaca, Janzeh) — 550 BC to 1300 AD Pasargadae — 550 BC to 1000 AD Persepolis (also Parsa) — 518 BC to 330 BC Susa (also Shushan, Seleucia, Sus, Shush) — founded 4200 BC Tabriz (also Tauris) — founded 226 AD Tehran — founded 800 AD
Iraq (18)
Akkad (also Agade) — 2334 BC to 2154 BC Assur — 2500 BC to 240 AD Babylon (also Babili, Karanduniash, Babirus, Babil) — 1894 BC to 1000 AD Ctesiphon (also al-Mada'in) — 129 BC to 900 AD Eridu — 5400 BC to 600 BC Eshnunna — 3000 BC to 1755 BC Girsu — 3000 BC to 2000 BC Hatra (also Beit Elaha) — 250 BC to 241 AD Jarmo — 7100 BC to 5800 BC Lagash — 3000 BC to 2000 BC Mosul (also Al-Mawsil) — founded 637 AD Nimrud (also Kalḫu) — 1274 BC to 612 BC Nineveh (also Ninua, Nebi Yunus) — founded 6000 BC Seleucia (also Veh-Ardashir, al-Mada'in) — 305 BC to 900 AD Tell al-Ubaid — 5500 BC to 2300 BC Tell el-Oueili — 6500 BC to 3800 BC Ur (also Urim) — 3800 BC to 500 BC Uruk — 4000 BC to 100 AD
Italy (8)
Antium (also Anzio) — founded 1000 BC Florence (also Florentia, Firenze) — founded 59 BC Herculaneum (also Resina, Ercolano) — founded 600 BC Naples (also Parthenope, Neapolis, Napoli) — founded 700 BC Ostia Antica (also Ostia, Gregoriopolis) — founded 620 BC Pompeii — 600 BC to 79 AD Rome (also Roma) — founded 753 BC Syracuse (also Syrakousai, Syracusae, Saraqusa, Siracusa) — founded 734 BC
Japan (3)
Kyoto (also Heian-kyō) — founded 711 AD Nara (also Heijō-kyō) — founded 710 AD Tokyo (also Edo) — founded 1457 AD
Jordan (1)
Petra (also Raqmu, Wadi Musa) — founded 400 BC
Lebanon (3)
Byblos (also Gubla, Kupna, Gebal, Jbeil, Gibelet) — founded 5000 BC Sidon (also Saida) — founded 3000 BC Tyre (also Şurru, Şūr, Tyros, Tyrus, Sur) — founded 2750 BC
Mali (1)
Timbuktu (also Tombouctou) — founded 1100 AD
Nigeria (1)
Lagos (also Eko) — founded 1400 AD
North Cyprus (1)
Nicosia (also Ledra, Lefkosia, Lefkoşa) — founded 1050 BC
Palestine (3)
Gaza (also Azzah, Hazzat, Ghazzah) — founded 1500 BC Jericho (also Yariho, Yeriho, Hiericho, Ariha) — founded 9000 BC Jerusalem (also Urusalim, Yerushalayim, Hierosolyma, Iliya, Al-Quds) — founded 3000 BC
Portugal (1)
Lisbon (also Ulissipo, Olisipo, Olissipo, al-Ushbuna, Lisboa) — founded 1200 BC
Russia (2)
Moscow (also Moskva River Settlements, Moskva) — founded 800 AD Saint Petersburg (also Neva Delta Settlements, Neva Land, Izhora Land, Nyen, Sankt Peterburg, Petrograd, Leningrad) — founded 500 BC
South Korea (1)
Seoul (also Hanyang, Hanseong, Keijō) — founded 1394 AD
Spain (4)
Madrid (also Mayrit) — founded 865 AD Numantia — 600 BC to 500 AD Saguntum (also Arse, Murbiter, Morvedre, Sagunto) — founded 500 BC Tarraco (also Kesse, Tarracona, Tarrakuna, Tarragona) — founded 600 BC
Syria (14)
Aleppo (also Halab, Halabu, Halap, Beroea, Halep) — founded 3000 BC Apamea (also Afamiyya, Qalaat al-Madiq) — founded 300 BC Bosra (also Busruna, Bostra, Busra) — founded 1400 BC Cyrrhus (also Hagioupolis, Qurush, Coricie) — 300 BC to 1300 AD Damascus (also Dimasqu, Aram-Damascus, Dimaşqa, Dimashqu, Damaskos, Dimashq, Şam) — founded 4300 BC Dura-Europos (also Europos) — 303 BC to 257 AD Ebla — 3000 BC to 1600 BC Hama (also Hamath, Epiphaneia, Epiphania, Emath) — founded 6500 BC Mari — 2900 BC to 1759 BC Palmyra (also Tadmor, Tadmur) — founded 2000 BC Qatna — 2000 BC to 1340 BC Rhesaina (also Sikkan, Resh-aina, Theodosiopolis, Ras al-Ayn) — founded 8000 BC Tell Brak (also Nagar, Nawar) — 6500 BC to 600 BC Ugarit — 6000 BC to 1185 BC
Thailand (3)
Ayutthaya (also Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya) — founded 1351 AD Bangkok (also Krung Thep) — founded 1782 AD Sukhothai — 1238 AD to 1438 AD
Tunisia (2)
Carthage (also Qart-ḥadaşt, Colonia Iunonia, Colonia Iulia Carthago, Carthago, Qarṭājannah) — founded 814 BC Tunis (also Tūnis) — founded 698 AD
Türkiye (130)
Acemhöyük (also Burušhattum) — 2000 BC to 1200 BC Afyonkarahisar (also Afiun, Karahisar) — founded 800 BC Aizanoi (also Aezani, Çavdarhisar) — founded 3000 BC Aksaray (also Šinaḫuttum, Garsaura, Archelaïs, Koloneia) — founded 1600 BC Alacahöyük — founded 3000 BC Alişar Höyük (also Ankuwa) — 4000 BC to 1071 AD Amasya (also Amaseia) — founded 3000 BC Amorium (also Amorion, Hisarköy) — founded 800 BC Anazarbus (also Cyinda, Justinianopolis, Ain Zarba, Anazarbos, Anavarza) — 300 BC to 1374 AD Ani — 300 AD to 1700 AD Ankara (also Ankuwash, Ankyra, Ancyra, Engürü, Angora) — founded 2500 BC Antandrus (also Antandros, Altınoluk) — founded 1000 BC Antioch (also Antakya) — founded 300 BC Apasas — 1700 BC to 1200 BC Aphrodisias (also Ninoë, Megale Polis, Stauropolis, Geyre) — founded 5800 BC Arsameia — 255 BC to 72 AD Arsamosata (also Shimshat) — 240 BC to 1234 AD Arslantepe (also Malidiya, Malizi, Melitea, Meliddu) — 4500 BC to 700 BC Aşıklı Höyük — 8200 BC to 7400 BC Aspendos (also Estwediys, Belkıs) — founded 1000 BC Assos (also Behramkale) — founded 1000 BC Attaleia (also Antalya) — founded 158 BC Aydın (also Tralles, Seleukeia) — founded 700 BC Balıkesir (also Hadrianeia, Karesi) — founded 700 BC Battalgazi (also Melitene, Malatya, Eski Malatya) — founded 70 AD Bergama (also Pergamon, Pergamum) — founded 400 BC Bodrum (also Halicarnassus, Halikarnassos, Petronion) — founded 1000 BC Bursa (also Prousa, Prusa) — founded 202 BC Çadır Höyük (also Çadır) — 5000 BC to 1308 AD Çankırı (also Gangra, Germanicopolis) — founded 700 BC Carchemish (also Karkamissa, Karkamisa, Karkemiš) — 3000 BC to 605 BC Çatalhöyük — 7500 BC to 5700 BC Çavuştepe (also Sardurihinili) — 764 BC to 645 BC Çayönü Tepesi — 10200 BC to 6800 BC Comana (also Kummanni, Komana, Şar) — founded 1500 BC Çukuriçi Höyük — 6700 BC to 1900 BC Cyzicus (also Kyzikos) — 756 BC to 1200 AD Daskyleion — founded 1000 BC Derinkuyu (also Elengubu, Malakopia) — 1200 BC to 2026 AD Diyarbakır (also Amidu, Amida, Amid, Diyarbekir) — founded 2000 BC Edirne (also Uskudama, Hadrianopolis, Adrianople) — founded 500 BC Eğil (also Carcathiocerta, Ingila, Ankil, Egil) — founded 900 BC Ephesus (also Ephesos) — 1050 BC to 1100 AD Eskişehir (also Dorylaion) — founded 800 BC Eskiyapar Höyük (also Eskiyapar) — founded 3000 BC Fethiye (also Telebehi, Telmessos, Anastasiopolis, Beskaza, Meğri) — founded 800 BC Gaziantep (also Antiochia, Aintab, Antep, Ayntab) — founded 300 BC Gelibolu (also Kallipolis, Gallipoli) — founded 600 BC Göbeklitepe — 9500 BC to 8000 BC Gordion (also Gordium) — 2300 BC to 1400 AD Harran (also Harranu, Carrhae) — founded 2000 BC Hierapolis (also Pamukkale) — founded 190 BC Hüseyindede Höyüğü — 1650 BC to 1400 BC Iasos (also Iasus, Asin, Asın) — 2500 BC to 1500 AD İpsala (also Kypsela, Cypsela) — founded 550 BC İstanbul (also Byzantion, Byzantium, Constantinople, Constantinopolis, Kostantiniyye) — founded 657 BC İzmir (also Smyrna) — 3000 BC to 2026 AD İzmit (also Astakos, Nicomedia, Nikomedeia, İznikmid) — founded 712 BC Kadıköy (also Chalcedon) — founded 685 BC Kahramanmaraş (also Marqas, Germanicia, Germanikeia, Mar'ash, Marash, Maraş) — founded 2000 BC Kanish (also Kaneš) — 3300 BC to 395 AD Karadeniz Ereğli (also Heraclea Pontica, Pontoheraclea, Ereğli) — founded 560 BC Karahantepe — 9500 BC to 8000 BC Karaman (also Lānda, Laranda, Larende) — founded 1600 BC Karatepe (also Azatiwadaya) — 720 BC to 612 BC Kayseri (also Mazaka, Caesarea, Kaisareia) — founded 500 BC Kerkenes (also Pteria) — 600 BC to 547 BC Kilistra (also Lystra, Gökyurt) — 300 BC to 2026 AD Klazomenai (also Clazomenae) — 1100 BC to 1000 AD Knidos (also Cnidus) — 900 BC to 700 AD Konya (also Ikkuwaniya, Kawania, Ikonion, Iconium) — founded 3000 BC Kozan (also Flaviopolis, Sision, Sis) — founded 70 AD Kütahya (also Kotiaion, Cotiaeum) — founded 700 BC Laodicea (also Laodikya, Eski Hisar) — 260 BC to 1400 AD Lapseki (also Lampsakos, Lampsacus) — founded 654 BC Letoon — 700 BC to 1400 AD Magnesia ad Maeandrum (also Magnesia) — 800 BC to 1200 AD Malatya — founded 1840 AD Manavgat (also Manavghad) — founded 1200 AD Manisa (also Magnesia) — founded 1300 BC Marmara Ereğlisi (also Perinthos, Heraclea, Ereğli) — founded 600 BC Marmaris (also Physkos) — founded 600 BC Maşat Höyük (also Tappika) — 2000 BC to 1180 BC Metropolis (also Puranda, Mētropolis, Yeniköy) — founded 3000 BC Milas (also Mylasa) — founded 700 BC Miletus (also Millawanda, Miletos, Balat) — founded 2000 BC Myra (also Kale-i Demre, Demre) — founded 1200 BC Nerik (also Nerikka) — 4500 BC to 700 BC Nevali Çori — 8700 BC to 7500 BC Nikaia (also Antigoneia, İznik) — founded 316 BC Olympos — 300 BC to 1500 AD Patara (also Patar, Arsinoë) — 1500 BC to 1340 AD Perge (also Parha) — 1000 BC to 1200 AD Pessinus (also Pessinous, Ballıhisar) — founded 400 BC Pinara — 800 BC to 900 AD Priene (also Old Priene) — 800 BC to 1300 AD Sagalassos (also Salawassa, Sagalassus) — 1400 BC to 650 AD Samsat (also Kummuh, Kummuhu, Samosata, Sumaysat) — founded 3000 BC Samsun (also Enete, Amisos, Amisus) — founded 1500 BC Samuha (also Šamuḫa) — 1600 BC to 1150 BC Şanlıurfa (also Urhai, Edessa, al-Ruha, Urfa) — founded 3000 BC Sapinuwa (also Šapinuwa) — 1600 BC to 1071 AD Sardis (also Sfard, Sparda, Sart) — founded 1200 BC Sarissa (also Šarişşa) — 1600 BC to 1200 BC Selçuk (also Hagios Theologos, Ayasoluk) — founded 1100 AD Selge (also Altınkaya) — founded 1000 BC Selimiye (also Side) — founded 1895 AD Sestos — 600 BC to 1356 AD Side — 700 BC to 1200 AD Silivri (also Selymbria) — founded 660 BC Sinop (also Sinope) — founded 630 BC Sivas (also Sebasteia) — founded 2000 BC Stratonicea (also Idrias, Stratonikeia, Eskihisar) — 700 BC to 1985 AD Tarsus (also Tarşa, Tarzu) — founded 2000 BC Taşköprü (also Pompeiopolis) — founded 700 BC Tavium — 278 BC to 1200 AD Tekirdağ (also Bisanthe, Rhaedestus, Rodosto, Rodosçuk) — founded 700 BC Termessos (also Termessus) — 700 BC to 500 AD Tlos (also Dalawa, Yakaköy) — founded 1500 BC Toprakkale (also Rusahinili) — 714 BC to 590 BC Tosya (also Doceia) — founded 395 AD Trabzon (also Trapezus, Trapezous, Trebizond) — founded 756 BC Troy (also Wilusa, Ilion, Ilium) — 3000 BC to 1200 AD Tyana (also Tūwanuwa, Tuwana, Kemerhisar) — founded 1600 BC Uşak (also Temenothyrae) — founded 700 BC Uşaklı Höyük (also Zippalanda) — 2000 BC to 600 AD Van (also Tušpa, Tushpa, Wan) — founded 860 BC Xanthos (also Arnna, Xanthus, Kınık) — founded 1200 BC Zeugma — 300 BC to 1300 AD Zincirli Höyük (also Sam'al, Zincirli) — founded 3000 BC
Turkmenistan (1)
Merv (also Margush, Antiocheia Margiana, Marv, Bayramaly) — founded 500 BC
United Kingdom (2)
London (also Londinium, Lundenwic, Lundenburh) — founded 47 AD Skara Brae — 3180 BC to 2500 BC
Uzbekistan (2)
Bukhara (also Bukhārak, Bukhārā) — founded 500 BC Samarkand (also Afrasiab, Marakanda) — founded 700 BC