Cities of the ancient Near East

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The largest cities in the Bronze Age ancient Near East housed several tens of thousands. 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 50–60,000, while Niniveh had some 20–30,000, reaching 100,000 only in the Iron Age (ca. 700 BC).

The KI 𒆠 determinative was the Sumerian term for a city or city state.[1] In Akkadian and Hittite orthography, URU𒌷 became a determinative sign denoting a city, or combined with KUR𒆳 "land" the kingdom or territory controlled by a city, e.g. 𒄡𒆳𒌷𒄩𒀜𒌅𒊭 LUGAL KUR URUHa-at-ti "the king of the country of (the city of) Hatti".

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Mesopotamia [edit]

Further information: Geography of Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia

Lower Mesopotamia [edit]

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Map of Syria in the second millennium BC

(ordered from north to south)

Upper Mesopotamia [edit]

(ordered from north to south)

Zagros and Elam [edit]

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(ordered from north to south)

Anatolia [edit]

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(ordered from north to south)

The Levant [edit]

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(all ordered alphabetically)

Arabian Peninsula [edit]

Egypt [edit]

Map of site in Ancient Egypt

Lower Egypt [edit]

Upper Egypt [edit]

Wawat (Nubia) [edit]
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Kush and Ethiopia [edit]

See also [edit]

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References [edit]

  1. ^ Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (EPSD)
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