Cronologia Byzantine

7000 a.C. – 2000 d.C. · 46 siti

Bisanzio è lo stato romano che continua da Costantinopoli: chiese, mura e città più antiche rifortificate dai Balcani all'Anatolia. Molti siti "romani" di Atlas hanno un secondo capitolo medievale sotto questa etichetta di civiltà.

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Most-Visited Ancient Site in the World

Troy

3000 a.C. – 500 d.C.

Nine settlement layers at Hisarlık in northwestern Türkiye, where Heinrich Schliemann dug for Homer's Troy and archaeologists still debate which level matches a historical war. UNESCO listed the site in 1998; renewed interest from epic film adaptations keeps new visitors comparing poetry with stone.

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Oldest City in Jordan

Petra

300 a.C. – 700 d.C.

Petra, the Nabataean capital from ~300 BCE to 700 CE, is famed for its rock-cut tombs and sophisticated water system, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders.

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Walled old town and harbour of Dubrovnik on the Adriatic Sea

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Croatia

Dubrovnik Old Town

600 d.C. – 1808 d.C.

The walled marble city on the Adriatic — capital of the maritime Republic of Ragusa for centuries — whose intact ramparts, Stradun, and Renaissance palaces make it one of Europe's most visited historic cities and a UNESCO masterpiece of late-medieval urban design.

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Record continentale

Most-Visited Ancient Site in Africa

Carthage

814 a.C. – 700 d.C.

Ancient Phoenician city-state that became Rome's greatest rival, later reborn as a Roman metropolis, embodying over a millennium of Mediterranean history.

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Ephesus

1000 a.C. – 700 d.C.

Major Ionian city near modern Selçuk, once home to the Temple of Artemis and later a Roman metropolis of marble streets, terrace houses, and the Library of Celsus. Paul's epistles and pilgrimage routes kept Ephesus famous after the ancient harbour silted away.

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The Dome of the Rock and Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem

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Oldest City in Israel

Old City of Jerusalem

1000 a.C. – 1900 d.C.

The walled heart of Jerusalem — roughly one square kilometre sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — where the Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Dome of the Rock stand within Ottoman-era ramparts and layers of Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine, and medieval archaeology.

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Meteora

1100 d.C. – 1900 d.C.

A forest of sandstone pinnacles in Thessaly, Greece — crowned by Byzantine and post-Byzantine monasteries reached by stairs and bridges — among the most dramatic religious landscapes in Europe and a UNESCO site drawing millions of visitors and pilgrims.

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Derinkuyu

800 a.C. – 1923 d.C.

The deepest known underground city in the world, extending 85 meters below the surface with 18 levels. It could shelter approximately 20,000 people along with livestock and food stores.

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Ani

500 d.C. – 1400 d.C.

A medieval Armenian capital on the Turkish-Armenian border, once home to over 100,000 people. Its ruins include magnificent churches, mosques, and fortifications spanning centuries of multicultural history.

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Panoramic view of ancient Antakya from the hills

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Antioch (Antakya)

300 a.C. – 1268 d.C.

One of the four great cities of the ancient world and a cradle of early Christianity. Antioch's extraordinary mosaics rival those of Pompeii, and its layered history spans Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic civilizations.

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Oldest City in Libya

Leptis Magna

700 a.C. – 650 d.C.

Leptis Magna, a UNESCO World Heritage site on Libya's coast, was a major Phoenician then Roman city, reaching its zenith under Emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193–211 CE).

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Roman theatre and Mediterranean shoreline at Caesarea Maritima, Israel

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Known by the Most Names in Israel

Caesarea Maritima

22 a.C. – 1265 d.C.

Herod the Great’s purpose-built Roman port on the Sharon coast, with the harbour of Sebastos, a theatre, hippodrome, and aqueduct. A 2025 Haifa–Malta photogrammetric survey of the drowned harbour mouth shows two building phases and a channel still deep enough for ships.

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