The list of the largest cities in the world (historical) provides an overview of the population of the largest urban agglomerations in the world at a certain point in history. The cities are listed with their names in the respective epoch. The contemporary state structure in which the city was located at the time of the statistics is also given.
It should be noted that the numbers are mostly estimates by individual researchers, which can vary extremely under certain circumstances.
Biggest cities in the world around the year 100
Metropolitan areas
rank
Surname
region
Residents
source
1.
Rome
Roman Empire ( Italy )
1,000,000
2.
Alexandria
Roman Empire ( Aegyptus )
600,000
3.
Antioch
Roman Empire ( Syria )
500,000
4th
Luoyang
China
400,000
5.
Carthage
Roman Empire ( Africa )
300,000
6th
Seleukia ctesiphon
Parthian Empire
300,000
7th
Corinth
Roman Empire ( Achaea )
250,000
8th.
Ephesus
Roman Empire ( Asia )
200,000
9.
Anuradhapura
Sri Lanka
130,000
10.
Athens
Roman Empire ( Achaea )
120,000
11.
Peshawar
Kushana
120,000
12.
Capua
Roman Empire ( Italy )
100,000
13.
Pergamon
Roman Empire ( Asia )
100,000
14th
Caesarea Maritima
Roman Empire ( Judea )
100,000
15th
Aquileia
Roman Empire ( Italy )
100,000
Other big cities:
The Roman-Germanic city of Augusta Treverorum , later Trier , had around 30,000 inhabitants in the year 100 and was therefore a cosmopolitan city. By the year 300, 80,000 people were already living in the city.
The Mirador Basin ( Guatemala , Petén ) with the cities of El Mirador (highest population between 300 BC and 100 AD is estimated at 50,000 to 200,000), Calakmul , Nakbe , El Tintal and others.
Teotihuacán in later Mexico had between 200 and 650 up to 200,000 inhabitants.
Tikal (peak in the 8th century with up to 200,000 people)
Xi'an in China had 240,000 and between 618 and 907 around 1 million inhabitants at the turn of the times
Biggest cities in the world around the year 1000
Metropolitan areas
rank
Surname
region
Residents
source
1.
Angkor
Cambodia
1,000,000
2.
Kaifeng
China
500,000
3.
Constantinople
Byzantium
430,000
4th
Kyoto
Japan
175,000
5.
Cairo
Egypt
135,000
6th
Baghdad
Iraq
125,000
7th
Neyshabur
Persia
125,000
8th.
Cordoba
Caliphate of Cordoba
110,000
9.
Al-Hasa
Arabia
110,000
10.
Patan
Nepal
100,000
Largest cities in the world around 1500
Metropolitan areas
rank
Surname
region
Residents
source
1.
Beijing
China
670,000
2.
Istanbul / Constantinople
Ottoman Empire
550,000
3.
Vijayanagar
India
500,000
4th
Cairo
Mamluk Empire
400,000
5.
Paris
France
300,000
6th
Hangzhou
China
250,000
7th
Tabriz
Persia
250,000
8th.
Venice
Republic of Venice
200,000
9.
Tenochtitlan
Aztec Empire
200,000
10.
Naples
Kingdom of Naples
150,000
11.
Guangzhou
China
150,000
12.
Nanjing
China
147,000
13.
London
England
125,000
14th
Milan
Duchy of Milan
100,000
Largest cities in the world around 1870
Metropolitan areas
rank
Surname
region
Residents
year
1.
London
United Kingdom
3,840,595
1871
2.
Paris
France
≈2,300,000
1870
3.
New York City
United States
1,469,045
1870
4th
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
900.998
1869
5.
Beijing
Empire of China
≈875,000
1870
6th
St. Petersburg
Russian Empire
842,900
1873
7th
Berlin
Prussia
826.341
1871
8th.
Istanbul
Ottoman Empire
≈800,000
≈1870
9.
Philadelphia
United States
674.022
1870
10.
Bombay
British India
644.605
1872
11.
Moscow
Russian Empire
601,969
1871
12.
Tokyo
Empire of Japan
595,900
1872
Largest cities in the world around 1910
Core cities
rank
Surname
region
Residents
was standing
1.
London
United Kingdom
7.160.441
1911
2.
New York City
United States
4,766,883
1910
3.
Paris
France
2,888,110
1911
4th
Chicago
United States
2,185,283
1910
5.
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
2,083,630
1910
6th
Berlin
The German Imperium
2,071,257
1910
7th
Tokyo
Japanese Empire
2,050,100
1914
8th.
St. Petersburg
Russian Empire
1,962,000
1910
9.
Moscow
Russian Empire
1,617,157
1912
10.
Buenos Aires
Argentina
1,582,884
1914
11.
Philadelphia
United States
1,549,008
1910
12.
Bombay
British India
1,018,388
1911
13.
Hamburg
The German Imperium
931.035
1910
14th
Istanbul / Constantinople
Ottoman Empire
909.978
1914
15th
Budapest
Austria-Hungary
880.371
1910
16.
Shanghai
China
832,500
1910
Largest cities in the world around 1950
Urban agglomerations
rank
Surname
region
Residents
was standing
1.
New York City
United States
12,338,470
1950
2.
Tokyo
Japan
11,274,641
1950
3.
London
United Kingdom
8,360,847
1950
4th
Osaka - Kobe - Kyoto
Japan
7.005.284
1950
5.
Paris
France
6,283,018
1950
6th
Moscow
Soviet Union
5,356,392
1950
7th
Buenos Aires
Argentina
5,097,612
1950
8th.
Chicago
United States
4,999,060
1950
9.
Calcutta
India
4,513,496
1950
10.
Shanghai
China
4,300,942
1950
11.
los Angeles
United States
4,045,514
1950
12.
Mexico city
Mexico
3,365,081
1950
13.
Berlin
Germany
3,337,621
1950
14th
Philadelphia
United States
3,127,806
1950
15th
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
3,026,195
1950
16.
Leningrad
Soviet Union
2,902,789
1950
17th
Bombay
India
2,857,359
1950
18th
Detroit
United States
2,769,254
1950
19th
Boston
United States
2,550,818
1950
20th
Cairo
Egypt
2,493,514
1950
See also
literature
Tertius Chandler: Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth. An Historical Census , Lewingston (NY) 1987. ISBN 0-88946-207-0
Jean-Claude Golvin: Metropolis of Antiquity , Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 2005.
George Modelski: World Cities: -3000 to 2000 , Faros 2000, Washington 2003.
Alfred Schinz: The Magic Square: History of Chinese City Planning , Axel Menges, Honolulu 1990.
A Dynamic Map of the World Cities' Growth
Single receipts
^ Frank Kolb : Rome. The history of the city in antiquity , Munich 1995, p. 453f
^ Manfred Clauss : Alexandria. Fate of an ancient cosmopolitan city. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003
^ A b c Jean-Claude Golvin: Metropolen der Antike , Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 2005
↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m George Modelski: World Cities: -3000 to 2000 , Faros 2000, Washington 2003
^ Frank Kolb: The city in antiquity , Munich 2005
^ Alfred Schinz: The Magic Square: History of Chinese City Planning , Axel Menges, Honolulu 1990
↑ Buringh, Eltjo (2010). Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West. Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-9004175198
↑ Susan Naquin: Beijing Temples and City Life. 1400-1900. University of California Press, Berkeley 2000
↑ Statistical Yearbook of the City of Vienna ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 62.@1 @ 2 Template: Toter Link / www.vwl.tuwien.ac.at
↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t World Urbanization Prospects - Population Division - United Nations. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
<img src="https://de.wikipedia.org//de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" title="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;">