{"id":5001,"date":"2011-02-21T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2011-02-21T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:00:14","slug":"which-is-the-oldest-continuously-inhabited-city-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5001","title":{"rendered":"Which is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it depends what you mean by &#8216;city&#8217; and by &#8216;continuously inhabited&#8217; but, however you define these terms, there are many claimants for the title.<\/p>\n<p>When I visited Israel, I went to Jaffa just outside the modern city of Tel Aviv and this place claims to have been inhabited for the last 4,000 years [my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Israel.html#TA1\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>However, I am about to holiday in the Levant and a number of cities that we will visit claim to be the oldest inhabited in the world: Damascus and Aleppo in Syria and Beirut and Byblos in Lebanon. Whether or not these places are the oldest, they are certainly <em>very, very old<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_cities_by_time_of_continuous_habitation\">a page<\/a> on Wikipedia which attempts to summarise the various claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it depends what you mean by &#8216;city&#8217; and by &#8216;continuously inhabited&#8217; but, however you define these terms, there are many claimants for the title. When I visited Israel, I went to Jaffa just outside the modern city of Tel Aviv and this place claims to have been inhabited for the last 4,000 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5006,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}