[tsa]

The city where I live, Enschede, dates back to before 1118. The church is rumoured to have been standing in some form from 800 on.

How old is your city?

[TiAgUh]

Good question..

Lisbon

The popular legend says that this city was founded by Ulysses, the mythic hero of Odyssey (...)

There you go.

[SSH]

About AD 600 the poem Y Gododdin, using the Brythonic form of Edinburgh (Dun Eidin), describes warriors feasting "in Eidin's great hall".

Although, actually I live in South Queensferry, which is now part of Edinburgh but... The town is named after Saint Margaret of Scotland who used to cross the firth by ferry from "Queen's Ferry" to visit her chapel in Edinburgh Castle. She died in 1093 and made her final journey by ferry to Dunfermline Abbey.

Let's all have a laugh when the Americans post...

[misslilo]

Hmm, found this when searching for my city and age on google:

"Nye udgravninger i Århus har vist, at byen er opstået omkring år 770. Dermed er byen mindst 100 år ældre end hidtil antaget, og Århus er dermed også en af de ældste byer i Norden"

Heehee

Ok, it says, that not long ago, they discovered some viking artifacts, that suggest it was founded around the year 770 or maybe even older!
Cool

[RLacey]

Parts of the town in which I live have been inhabited since Anglo-Saxon times.

The village in which I live, that has been subsumed within that town, though, had people farming it in 1068. Apparently.


Oxford, meanwhile, has also been inhabited since the days of the Anglo-Saxons, but it first gets a mention in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 912.

[Catbert]

Around 520 years old or something. Apparently it's where either the oldest or second oldest thermal hospital in the world was built. Not much to see on it anyway.

[kuze]

Mine is about 2023 years old, initially an old roman settlement. What do I win?

[Squinky]

I thought we were going for youngest, in which case, Vancouver would most certainly win at about 150.

[Melanie68]

Nope.

Davis, California - Settled 1868, Incorporated 1917

[tsa]

Originally Posted by kuze

Mine is about 2023 years old, initially an old roman settlement. What do I win?

Since you didn't tell us where you live, nothing

[Ninja Dodo]

Well it's not my hometown, but currently living in Lugdunum.

Alkmaar back home dates back a good ways too, but not quite that much.

[edit: 43 BC and 10th century respectively]

[kuze]

Originally Posted by tsa

Since you didn't tell us where you live, nothing

Well, there aren't that many cities in Germany that are that old. Only one, to be precise (there is one that is older, but that's beside the point).

[stepurhan]

My home town was already a port when the romans moved in in 55BC (thus putting me ahead of kuze by a good 40 years straight off) But there are Bronze Age artefacts and the remains of Iron Age forts on the hills at the east end of town so it's been occupied even longer than that.

The famous battle didn't occur here but a good few miles north.

Michael Kitchen's wartime detective lives here as well. I still haven't worked out exactly what house they use for him in the TV series but I've got the rough area down.

It would be a much nicer place to live if it wasn't for all the dang trippers that come down in the summer months to lounge on the beach.

[Merricat]

Originally Posted by stepurhan

It would be a much nicer placer to live if it wasn't for all the dang trippers that come down in the summer months to lounge on the beach.

I especially like the sort that behave as though they're at an amusment park--they wander into the streets as though traffic isn't an issue. Of course, the irony is that traffic isn't an issue for 8 months out of the year (the season seems to begin a bit earlier and end a bit later every year).


A mere 350-ish years for my area, probably rounding up.

[Giligan]

According to The New World, my region was inhabited by the Shawnee. They were documented as having lived in this area by at least 1670, and certainly had lived here long before that time. So "a really long time" for me.

[Trader]

The prehistory of the Tiwi is related to that of other Aboriginal Australians. Recently calculated (1981) dates for earliest signs of human cultural activity are approximately forty thousand years ago. The Tiwi themselves are mentioned in historic records from the early eighteenth century, when they came in contact with Dutch, Portuguese, and British explorers. Prior to these recorded contacts by Europeans, there is evidence for early Chinese and Indonesian contact but no sustained settlement. I am a Tiwi [half] the other half is Macedonian I have tried to find out info it but it was too confusing but it looks like it is pretty old.

[ssa]

What a great topic .

No wins for me, but in case someone's interested:

I live in a big little town called Lund. Said to have been established in 990AD. 1103 the Pope declared it the Nordic archbishops diocese. For 500 years it was swamped with churches and convents, wich was finally pulled down by the reformists. Only the cathedral and one more church was spared.
Today, this little town of just over 100 000, houses a 350 year old university, a 240 year old university hospital and the science park Ideon with about 250 companies on its premises.

My family's been connected to it for almost a hundred years now.

[ssa]

Originally Posted by stepurhan

The famous battle didn't occur here but a good few miles north.

Is that Hastings?

Originally Posted by SSH

Let's all have a laugh when the Americans post...

I didn't laugh...I went "aaaww"

[tsa]

Originally Posted by ssa

What a great topic .

Thanks!

[lumi]

Originally Posted by Melanie68

Nope.

Davis, California - Settled 1868, Incorporated 1917

Redmond, Washington - pioneers came in 1871. Don't know about incorporation.

Originally Posted by SSH

Let's all have a laugh when the Americans post...

If you want old, the Seattle area has had settlement since around 4,000 years ago.