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  2. List of oldest continuously inhabited cities - Wikipedia

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    Fourth-oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the United States [59] New York City: New Amsterdam United States: 1624 AD Founded in 1624 as New Amsterdam. Was renamed New York City in 1667. Is the 12th oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States [60] Boston: Massachusetts Bay Colony

  3. List of cities in the Americas by year of foundation - Wikipedia

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    Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...

  4. List of North American settlements by year of foundation

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    Founded by a group led by William Houlton and John King. 1654: Pelham: New York: United States: Founded by Thomas Pell, who purchased 9,000 acres (14 sq mi) from the Siwanoy tribe and received a land grant from the English crown. 1655: Cap-Saint-Ignace: Quebec: Canada [24] 1655: Chelmsford: Massachusetts: United States: Founded by settlers from ...

  5. Timeline of the European colonization of North America

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    1536: Cabeza de Vaca reaches Mexico City after wandering through North America. 1538: Failed Huguenot settlement on St. Kitts in the Caribbean (destroyed by the Spanish). 1539: Hernando de Soto explores the interior from Florida to Arkansas. 1539: Francisco de Ulloa explores the Baja California peninsula. 1540: Coronado travels from Mexico to ...

  6. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1496, the city is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the New World. Cumaná, Venezuela. Founded in 1510, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European city in the continental Americas. There were at least a dozen European countries involved in the colonization of the Americas.

  7. History of cities - Wikipedia

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    Constantinople, the largest and wealthiest city in Europe from the 9th through the 12th century [34] [35] The Round city of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq In the remnants of the Roman Empire , cities of late antiquity at first gained independence, but lost their population and their importance, starting in Roman Britain and Germania .

  8. List of towns and cities in Germany by historical population

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    Only Augsburg, Regensburg, Trier and Cologne have been preserved as cities. The number of cities in Central Europe remained very small until about 1100 with a few hundred. By far the largest number of new cities was created in the following 250 years, when numerous cities were founded from 1120 onwards, mostly by an act of foundation and town ...

  9. List of largest European cities in history - Wikipedia

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    City 1 – 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 Agrigento: 50,000 [163]Athens: 30,000 – 90,000 110,000 25,000