page_title: List of cities of the ancient Near East
section_title: Anatolia
hierarchical_section_title: List of cities of the ancient Near East / Anatolia
caption_attribution_description: English: Settlements of Bronze Age Anatolia, based on Hittite records.Français&#160;: Carte de l'Anatolie hittite.
context_page_description: The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
  The largest cities of the Bronze Age Near East housed several tens of thousands of people. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age, with some 30,000 inhabitants, was the largest city of the time by far. Ur in the Middle Bronze Age is estimated to have had some 65,000 inhabitants; Babylon in the Late Bronze Age similarly had a population of some 50,000–60,000. Niniveh had some 20,000–30,000, reaching 100,000 only in the Iron Age.
  The KI 𒆠 determinative was the Sumerian term for a city or city state. In Akkadian and Hittite orthography, URU𒌷 became a determinative sign denoting a city, or combined with KUR𒆳 "land" the kingdom or territory controlled by a city, e.g. 𒄡𒆳𒌷𒄩𒀜𒌅𒊭 LUGAL KUR ᵁᴿᵁHa-at-ti "the king of the country of Hatti".
context_section_description: (ordered from north to south)
  İnandıktepe
  Miletus
  Sfard (Sardis)
  Nicaea
  Sapinuwa
  Yazilikaya
  Alaca Höyük
  Maşat Höyük
  Alishar Hüyük
  Hattusa
  Ilios (Wilusa, Ilion, Troas, Troy)
  Kanesh (Nesa, Kültepe)
  Arslantepe (Malatya)
  Çayönü (Amed, Diyarbakir)
  Sam'al (Zincirli Höyük)
  Çatalhöyük
  Beycesultan
  Karatepe
  Tushhan (Ziyaret Tepe)
  Adana
  Tarsus
  Zephyrion (Mersin)
  Gözlükule
  Sultantepe
  Attalia (Antalya)
caption: Settlements of Bronze Age Anatolia, based on Hittite records.
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