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A collection of cities from African history, from the ancient empires of Egypt, Nubia, Carthage, Rome, Zimbabwe, etc.

Based on a mixture of ancient maps, archaeological excavations and modern satellite height maps and google map images.

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Abydos, Ancient Egypt, 3000BC
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Abydos, Ancient Egypt, 3000BC From Wikipedia... "Abydos is one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt. It is located about 11 kilometres west of the Nile. In the ancient Egyptian language, the city was called Abdju. The English name Abydos comes from the Gr...
Alexandria, Ancient Egypt, 30BCE
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Ancient Alexandria, Egypt, 30BCE If you look at Alexandria today, you will see hundreds of miles of farmland to the south of the city. This farmland was created when the great Lake Mareotis was drained to give the desert country more space for growing crop...
Amarna - Akhetaten, Egypt, 1330BC
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Amarna - Akhetaten, Egypt, 1330BC Amarna-Akhenaten was the capital city of the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. The city was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. The name that the ancient Egyptians used for the ...
Avaris, Ancient Egypt, 1100BC
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Avaris, Ancient Egypt, 1100BC From Wikipedia: "Avaris was the Hyksos capital of Egypt located at the modern site of Tell el-Dab'a in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta. As the main course of the Nile migrated eastward, its position at the hub of Egy...
Carthage, Tunisia, 699AD
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Ancient Carthage, Tunisia, 699AD Existence: 1498 Years, From 800BC to 698AD Belonged to: Phoenicia, Rome, Byzantium Abandoned: War Wikipedia copy pasta: "Carthage was the capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lak...
Cirta, Roman Africa, 310AD
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Cirta, Roman Africa, 310AD Existence: Around 800 Years, From 500 BC til 310 AD Belonged to: Berbers, Rome Abandoned: War Cirta was the capital city of the Berber kingdom of Numidia; its strategically important port city was Russicada. Although Numidia was ...
Cyrene, Roman Africa, 400AD
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Cyrene, Roman Africa, 400AD Cyrene was an ancient Greek and later Roman city near to present-day Shahhat, Libya. It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities, known as the pentapoleis. Cyrene lies in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar uplan...
Elephantine, Egypt, 1500BC
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Elephantine, Egypt, 1500BC Wiki says... "Known to the ancient Egyptians as ꜣbw "Elephant" the island of Elephantine stood at the border between Egypt and Nubia. It was an excellent defensive site for a city and its location made it a natural cargo transfer...
Garama, Libya, 210AD
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Garama, Libya, 210AD Existence: Around 670 Years, From 100 til 669 AD Belonged to: Garamantia, Rome, Byzantium Abandoned: War Garama is an ancient abandoned city, its ruins can now be found in present-day Libya. It was the capital of the Garamantian Kingdo...
Great Zimbabwe, 1000AD
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Great Zimbabwe, 1000AD From Wikipedia... "Great Zimbabwe is a city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwi and the town of Masvingo. It is thought to have been the capital of a great kingdom about which little is known, during the countr...
Heraclion, Ancient Egypt, 1200BC
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Heraclion, Ancient Egypt, 1200BC Wikipedia says... "Heracleion also known by its Egyptian name Thonis ( and sometimes called Thonis-Heracleion, was an ancient Egyptian port city located near the Mouth of the Nile, about 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Alexandri...
Jebel Barkal, Ancient Egypt, 1169BC
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Jebel Barkal, Ancient Egypt, 1169BC Wiki says... "Jebel Barkal is a mesa located 400 km north of Khartoum, next to Karima in Northern State in Sudan, on the Nile River, in the region that is sometimes called Nubia. The jebel is 104 m tall, has a flat top, ...
Kerkouane, Tunisia, 250BC
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Kerkouane, Tunisia, 250BC Kerkouane was an ancient Phoenician city in modern north-eastern Tunisia, near Cape Bon. Kerkouane was one of the most important Punic cities, with Carthage, Hadrumetum, and Utica. This Phoenician city was abandoned during the Fir...
Kerma, Nubia, 1500BC
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Kerma, Nubia, 1500BC Kerma was the capital city of ancient Nubia, which was located in present-day Sudan at least 5500 years ago. By 1700 BC, Kerma was host to a population of at least 100,000 people....
Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, 1515AD
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Existence: Around 700 Years, From 800 til 1500 AD Belonged to: Mwera Peoples, Kilwa Sultanate Abandoned: War Kilwa Kisiwani is an island, national historic site, and ruins of an ancient city, now located in present-day Tanzania. At its peak in the middle a...
Kweneng, South Africa, 1500AD
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Kweneng, South Africa, 1500AD Existence: Around 420 Years, From 1400 til 1820 AD Belonged to: Tswana Abandoned: War Kweneng’ ruins are the remains of a pre-colonial Tswana capital occupied from the 15th to the 19th century AD in South Africa. The site is l...
Leptis Magna, Roman Libya, 200AD
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Leptis Magna, Roman Libya, 200AD From Wikipedia... "Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean. Originally a 7th-centur...
Memphis, Egypt, 642AD
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Existence: Around 3700 years, From 3100 BC til 641 AD Belonged to: Egypt, Greece, Rome Abandoned: Economic Collapse Memphis was the ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, the first nome of Lower Egypt that was known as mḥw ("north"). Its ruins are located in the v...
Meroe, Kush, 350AD
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Meroe, Kush, 350AD Existence: 940 Years, From 590 BC to 350 AD Belonged to: Kush, Nubia Abandoned: War Meroë was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of present-day Shendi, Sudan. This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Ku...
Nekhen, Ancient Egypt, 3000BC
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Nekhen, Ancient Egypt, 3000BC Wiki says... "Nekhen (Ancient Egyptian); also known to the Ancient Greeks as Hierakonpolis , City of the Hawk, was the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of prehistoric Egypt (c. 3200–3100 BC) and probab...
Pi-Ramesses, Egypt, 1200BC
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Pi-Ramesses, Egypt, 1200BC Wikiepedia copy paste... "Pi-Ramesses was the new capital built by the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II (1279–1213 BC) at Qantir, near the old site of Avaris. The city had served as a summer palace under Seti I (c. 1290–127...
Sabratha, Roman Africa, 367AD
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Sabratha, Roman Africa, 367AD Sabratha, also known as Sbrt'n, was the westernmost of the ancient "three cities" of Roman Tripolis, alongside Oea and Leptis Magna. Sabratha's port was established about 500 BC, as the Phoenician trading-post of Tsabratan. Af...
Songo Mnara, Tanzania, 1600 AD
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Songo Mnara, Tanzania, 1600 AD Songo Mnara is a historic Swahiili settlement located on Songo Mnara Island in present-day Tanzania. The island is home to a Medieval Swahili city which was occupied from the 14th to 16th centuries AD. Songo Mnara has been re...
Takedda, Niger, 1675 AD
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Existence: Unknown Belonged to: Takedda Kingdom, Mali Empire, Tuareg Kingdom Abandoned: Unknown Takedda was a city, and capital of the former Takedda Kingdom, located in present-day Niger. Takedda was founded by the Sanhaja, a Berber tribal confederation i...
Thapsus, Roman Africa, 399AD
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Thapsus, Roman Africa, 399AD Thapsus, was a Phoenician, Carthaginian and then Roman port city near present-day Bekalta, Tunisia. Thapsus was founded by the Phoenicians. It served as a waypoint on the trade routes between the Strait of Gibraltar and Phoenic...
Thebes, Luxor, & Karnak, Ancient Egypt
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Thebes, Luxor, & Karnak, Ancient Egypt Thie path of the River Nile has changed a lot since the days of the pharoahs. This map represents the Nile before it shifted, when Luxor was on an island. From Wikipedia... "Thebes, known to the ancient Egyptians as W...
Timgad, Roman Africa, 400AD
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Timgad, Roman Africa, 400AD When you go to Wikipedia, the words look like this: "Timgad was a Roman city in Algeria. It was founded by the Roman Emperor Trajan around CE 100. Located in modern-day Algeria, about 35 km east of the city of Batna, the ruins a...
Utica, Roman Africa, 399AD
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Utica, Tunisia, Roman Africa, 399AD What was once known as the Bay of Utica no longer exists, having silted up long ago, and the city ruins of Utica now sit 10km from the sea. This map represents the land when the city was still on the coastline. Wikipedia...
Volubilis, Morocco, 1100 AD
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Existence: Unknown Belonged to: Berbers, Carthage, Rome, Byzantium, Islamic Caliphates Abandoned: Economic Collapse Volubilis was an ancient Berber-Roman city, the ruins of which can now found in present-day Morocco. Built on a shallow slope below the Zerh...
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