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Abydos, Egypt
City in ancient Egypt
Ancient Corinth
City-state in ancient Greece
Angkor
Capital city of the Khmer Empire
Ani
Medieval Armenian city
Antioch
Ancient city in Turkey
Arpino
Comune in Lazio, Italy
Assur
Archaeological site in Iraq
Baalbek
City in Baalbek-Hermel, Lebanon
Babylon
Kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BC, located in modern-day Iraq
Bacatá
Area on the Bogotá Savannah
Bibracte
Oppidum
Budj Bim
Mountain in Victoria, Australia
Byblos
City in Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon
Byzantium
Ancient Greek city, forerunner of Constantinople
Caesarea Maritima
Village in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
Cahokia
Archaeological site near East St. Louis, Illinois, USA
Capua
Comune in Campania, Italy
Carnac stones
Stone rows in Carnac, France
Carthage
Archaeological site in Tunisia
Çatalhöyük
Archaeological site in Turkey
Chalcedon
Town in Bithynia
Chang'an
Ancient capital and city of China
Chaoshan
Place
Constantinople
Capital city of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire, the Latin and the Ottoman Empire
Crotone
Comune in Calabria, Italy
Ctesiphon
Ancient city in present-day Iraq that served as the capital of the Parthian and Sassanid empires
Cueva de las Manos
Cave with paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina
Cumae
Ancient Roman city near Naples, Italy
Cyrene, Libya
Ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya
DelPhi
Scientific application
Dur-Sharrukin
Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II
Edo
Former city in Musashi, Japan
Ephesus
Ancient city in Turkey
Eretria
Place in Greece
Eridu
Archaeological site in Iraq
Faiyum
City in Egypt
Göbekli Tepe
Archaeological and UNESCO World Heritage Site
Great Zimbabwe
Ruins of an ancient/medieval city in southeast Zimbabwe
Guangzhouwan
1898-1945 French enclave in South China
Hattusa
Capital of Hittite empire
Heian-kyō
Former name of the city now known as Kyoto
Jamestown, Virginia
Fort and town established in the Virginia Colony
Jericho
Palestinian city in the West Bank
Jiayu Pass
Mountain pass in China
Kerma
Capital city of the Kerma culture and archaeological site
Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
German leased territory in Imperial China
Knossos
Bronze Age archaeological site on the island of Crete
Kobe foreign settlement
Foreign settlement that existed in Hyogo prefecture, Japan
Königsberg
Historic Prussian name of Kaliningrad, Russia
Kwantung Leased Territory
Japanese possession in Northeastern China until the end of World War II
Mahasthangarh
Archaeological site of Bangladesh
Mantua
City in Lombardy, Italy
Memphis, Egypt
Ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, Egypt
Meroë
Ancient city along the eastern bank of the Nile River in Northern Sudan
Miletus
Ancient Greek city
Mohenjo-daro
Archaeological site in Sindh, Pakistan
Monte Verde
Archaeological site in southern Chile, located near Puerto Montt, which has been dated to as early as 18,500 BP (16,500 B.C.)
Moynaq
Place in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
Mycenae
Archaeological site in Greece
Nagaoka-kyō
Human settlement in Japan
Nagasaki foreign settlement
Area in Nagasaki settled by foreigners
Nicomedia
Ancient city of Bithynia
Nineveh
Ancient Assyrian city, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Ostia Antica
Large archaeological site of a harbour city near Rome, Italy
Palmyra
Ancient city in Homs Governorate, Syria
Pella
Capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedon
Pergamon
Ancient Greek and Roman city in modern-day Turkey and UNESCO World Heritage Site
Persepolis
Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire
Philippi
Ancient city in eastern Macedonia, in the Edonis region
Piraeus
Place in Greece
Pompeii
Ancient city near modern Naples, Italy
Port Royal
City in Kingston, Jamaica
Positron–Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator
Particle accelerator
Sanyi
Locality within Guangdong, China
Sarai (city)
Two successive capitals of the Golden Horde
Shanghai International Settlement
Merged conceded territories (1863–1941)
Shanhai Pass
Pass in the Great Wall of China in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province
Shiloh (biblical city)
Biblical city
Sidon
City in South Governorate, Lebanon
Sijilmasa
Medieval Moroccan city, previously the center of Tafilalt (also known from it as Sijilmasa during this period)
Siyi
Four former counties in China
Skara Brae
Neolithic archaeological site in Scotland
Sousa
Topics referred to by the same term
Sparta
City-state in ancient Greece
Sybaris
Important city of Magna Graecia
Talianki (archaeological site)
Archaeological site in Ukraine
Taos Pueblo
Ancient Tiwa pueblo in New Mexico
Tenochtitlan
Former city-state in the Valley of Mexico
Teotihuacan
Ancient Mexican city
Thebes, Egypt
Ancient Egyptian city
Thebes, Greece
Place in Greece
Tikal
Ruins of major ancient Maya city
Timbuktu
City in Tombouctou Region, Mali
Tiwanaku
Archaeological site in Bolivia
Troy
Ancient Homeric-era city in northwest Asia Minor
Tyre, Lebanon
City in Lebanon
UGARIT
Ur
Ancient Mesopotamian city-state
Uruk
Ancient city of Sumer and Babylonia
Victoria, Hong Kong
Historical city in Hong Kong
Vijayanagara
Now ruins, previously the capital of Vijayanagara Empire founded in the 14th century
Yaśodharapura
Ancient Khmer city-state
Yumen Pass
Mountain pass