Amman, Jordan
The city of Amman, the capital of Jordan, used to be called be Philadelphia under the Romans.
No, the Middle East would not have rainforests.
Phoenicians
Cairo
Assyria
Balela is a middle eastern salad.
Riyadh is not known as the Middle East. Riyadh is an important city in the Middle East and the capital of Saudi Arabia, but the Middle East has a lot more than just Riyadh.
Initially, it was Rome. The capital was moved by Emperor Constantine to Constantople (modern Istanbul) for strategic reasons: it was more easily defended. He named it Nova Roma; it was named after Constantine following his death.
It was known that people in Middle Eastern made the first Timpani.
mesopotamia? :D
The first capital of the U.S.A was Philadelphia. It was not New York. Plus New york was known as New Amsterdam, and it was the capital during the American Revolution, at which point we were not a unified country. Philadelphia was our capital when we announced our freedom from Britain becoming a country. Anybody who says New york was the first capital is absolutely wrong!
The Slik bank is best known for being a middle eastern bank. There is little information on it, but it has many open jobs for people in the middle east.