What is the third oldest city in the world?

Matera is an ancient city that seems to have existed forever. It is the third oldest city in the world, after Aleppo and Jericho, with over 10,000 years of history. The rock caves, the rocky Murgia of Matera and some primitive dwellings of the Sassi tell of ancient settlements.



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10 oldest cities in the world
  • Damascus, Syria – 11,000 years old.
  • Aleppo, Syria – 8,000 years old.
  • Byblos, Lebanon – 7,000 years old.
  • Athens, Greece – 7,000 years old.
  • Susa, Iran – 6,300 years old.
  • Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan – 6,000 years old.
  • Sidon, Lebanon – 6,000 years old.
  • Plovdiv, Bulgaria – 6,000 years old.


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  1. San Marino: 301 CE.
  2. Bulgaria: 681 CE. ...
  3. France: 843 CE. The territory of a French country was established in 843. ...
  4. Denmark: 965 CE. Denmark was founded in 965. ...
  5. Hungary: 1000 CE. Hungary is located in Central Europe, and it's landlocked. ...
  6. Portugal: 1143 CE. Portugal was founded in 1143. ...


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The youngest city in America is Provo, Utah, where the average age of Americans living there is 25 years. Notably, much of the population of Provo consists of college students at Brigham Young University and the families of academics and staffers of the university.

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But the earliest region for urbanization was the Middle East, with ancient Mesopotamia. About 10,000 years ago, soon after farming began there, the site of Jericho in present-day West Bank featured massive stone walls, enclosing a settlement of an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 residents.

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