What is the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth?

Answer 1

Damascus is considered to hold this position
Damascus, Syria

There is a great deal of debate even among experts as to which is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world; this is because once you reach a certain point in history there is no real documentation to say that the city was continuously occupied. There are 4 cities that claim that title, and the experts themselves cannot confirm or agree on it, with that in mind they are (with the estimated founding dates):

• Byblos (Gebal, Gubla, Gibele);Present day Lebanon Founded around 5,000 B.C.
• Damascus, Syria; first founded in 2,300 B.C. (Quoting "No large scale settlement existed until the 2nd millennium B.C. - when its walls were erected")
• Jericho, Palestine; the city was established and abandoned many times prior to its final establishment when it has been continuously occupied since 2,600 B.C.
• Varanasi (Benares, Banaras, Kashi); Present day India founded around 2,000 B.C.
• Rabbath-Ammon, Amman-Jordan (Rabbath-Ammon),

NOTE:

Amman, the modern and ancient capital of Jordan, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the World.

Recent excavations have uncovered homes and towers believed to have been built during the Stone Age with many references to it in The Bible.

Amman was known in the Old Testament as Rabbath-Ammon, the capital of the Ammonites around 1200 BC; it was also referred to as "the City of Waters".

In Greco-Roman times in the 3rd century BC, the City was renamed Philadelphia (Greek for "The Brotherhood Love") after the Ptolemaic ruler Philadelphus (283-246 BC). The City later came under Seleucid as well as Nabataean rule until the Roman General Pompey annexed Syria and made Philadelphia part of the Decapolis League - a loose alliance of ten free city-states, bound by powerful commercial, political, and cultural interests under overall allegiance to Rome.

NOTE: detailed in the links below; Proof exists that people lived in the valley where Damascus is currently located since 8,000 B.C., but no proof exists of a 'city' until much later. Like Jericho (established about the same time, 8,000 B.C. as an actual 'city') the city was abandoned many times. Byblos (in English, Bible) was an important trading post for Papyrus so it's history is well documented.

Answer 2

Jericho, located in the West Bank region of the Middle East, is the oldest continuously inhabited city on the planet.

Answer 3

Damascus is considered to hold this position
Damascus, Syria

There is a great deal of debate even among experts as to which is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world; this is because once you reach a certain point in history there is no real documentation to say that the city was continuously occupied. There are 4 cities that claim that title, and the experts themselves cannot confirm or agree on it, with that in mind they are (with the estimated founding dates):

• Byblos (Gebal, Gubla, Gibele);Present day Lebanon Founded around 5,000 B.C.
• Damascus, Syria; first founded in 2,300 B.C. (Quoting "No large scale settlement existed until the 2nd millennium B.C. - when its walls were erected")
• Jericho, Palestine; the city was established and abandoned many times prior to its final establishment when it has been continuously occupied since 2,600 B.C.
• Varanasi (Benares, Banaras, Kashi); Present day India founded around 2,000 B.C.
• Rabbath-Ammon, Amman-Jordan (Rabbath-Ammon),

NOTE:

Amman, the modern and ancient capital of Jordan, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the World.

Recent excavations have uncovered homes and towers believed to have been built during the Stone Age with many references to it in The Bible.

Amman was known in the Old Testament as Rabbath-Ammon, the capital of the Ammonites around 1200 BC; it was also referred to as "the City of Waters".

In Greco-Roman times in the 3rd century BC, the City was renamed Philadelphia (Greek for "The Brotherhood Love") after the Ptolemaic ruler Philadelphus (283-246 BC). The City later came under Seleucid as well as Nabataean rule until the Roman General Pompey annexed Syria and made Philadelphia part of the Decapolis League - a loose alliance of ten free city-states, bound by powerful commercial, political, and cultural interests under overall allegiance to Rome.

NOTE: detailed in the links below; Proof exists that people lived in the valley where Damascus is currently located since 8,000 B.C., but no proof exists of a 'city' until much later. Like Jericho (established about the same time, 8,000 B.C. as an actual 'city') the city was abandoned many times. Byblos (in English, Bible) was an important trading post for Papyrus so it's history is well documented.

Answer 4

Damascus.

Answer 5

Damascus