User:SomeGuyWhoRandomlyEdits/List of cities of the ancient Near East

The KI determinative was the Sumerian term for a city or city state. In Akkadian and Hittite orthography, URU became a determinative sign denoting a city, or combined with KUR "land" the kingdom or territory controlled by a city, e.g.  LUGAL KUR URUHa-at-ti "the king of the country of (the city of) Hatti".

=Asia=

Iran
=Africa=

Eritrea
=See also=


 * City-state


 * Sumerian King List


 * Historical cities


 * Short chronology timeline


 * List of oldest continuously inhabited cities

=References=

=External links=


 * Geospatial: Mapping Iraq's Ancient Cities


 * Ancient cities grew pretty much like modern ones, say scientists (February 2015), Christian Science Monitor