Africa
| Name | Historical region | Location | Continuously inhabited since | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxor (as Waset, better known by its Greek name Thebes) | Ancient Egypt | Egypt | -3200 c. 3200 BC | First established as capital of Upper Egypt, Thebes later became the religious capital of the nation until its decline in the Roman period. | |
| Yeha | D'mt | Ethiopia | -700 !c.700 BC | Oldest site of continuous habitation in Sub-Saharan Africa. | |
| Axum | Kingdom of Axum | Ethiopia | -400 !c.400 BC | Ancient capital of the Kingdom of Axum | |
| Igodomigodo | Kingdom of Benin | Nigeria | -400 !c. 400 BC | City of Benin, one of the oldest cities in Nigeria | |
| Ife | NigOsun State, Nigeria | -350 !c. 350 BC | earliest traces of habitation date to the 4th century BC. | ||
| Alexandria | Egypt | -332 !332 BC | Founded by Alexander the Great | ||
| Djenné-Jeno | Mali | -200 !c.200 BC | oldest known city in sub-Saharan Africa | ||
| Ghadames (as Cydamus) | Libya | -19 !19 BC | Roman town founded in 19 BC but "archaeological evidence shows occupation of the area in the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras" | ||
| Old Cairo | Egypt | 100 !c. 100 | Babylon Fortress moved to its current location in the reign of Emperor Trajan, forming the core of Old or Coptic Cairo | ||
| Fes (as Fes-al-Bali) | Morocco | 789 !789 | Founded as the new capital of the Idrisid Dynasty | ||
| Mogadishu | Somalia | 900 !c. 900 | settled by Arab traders | ||
| Marrakesh (Murakuc) | Morocco | 1070 !1070 | Foundeded by the Almoravid Dynasty | ||
| Lamu | Kenya | 1300 !c.1300 | Founded by Swahili settlers some time in the 14th century | ||
| Carthage | Tunisia | 814 BC | Founded by the Phoenicians. |
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Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more shattering.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
“I have a fair amount of faith that women won’t sit back and allow South Africa to become a totally male-dominated new society. The women in South Africa have shown that they are strong, and I think they will make their voices heard.”
—Paula Hathorn (b. c. 1962)