Which city is the worlds oldest capital city?

As far as I know it's Damaskus

Damascus

Damascus

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To the idiots who answered previously, pay attention to the question, baghdad wasn't around in the times of "mesopotamia", and Jericho isn't the same city as Jerusalem and its not a capital. The answer is Damascus, Syria followed by Athens, Greece and Rome would be the youngest of those three options.

Oldest continually inhabited cities:

1.) Jericho, West Bank, 9000 BC

2.) Byblos, Lebanon, 5000 BC

3.) Damascus, Syria, 4300 BC

4.) Susa, Iran, 4200 BC

5.) Sidon, Lebanon, 4000 BC

Oldest capital is harder... I would guess Turkish Istanbul (Roman Constantinople before that and Greek Byzantium before that) since it became the Capital of the Roman Byzantine Empire in the 4th Century BC and remained the capital until th 15th century when the Ottoman's captured it, at which time it became the Ottoman Capital until WW1 after which it became and still is the Capital of Turkey.

Can be Damascus too.

Damascus - 8000 to 1000 BC

Oslo - by 1049

Canberra - 1820s

Accra - late 1600s

So Damascus is the answer

it depends where you look as several lay claim to being the oldest. For instance, Damascus is of very ancient origin and proclaims itself the oldest city in the world. It first comes into full light as the capital of an Aramaean kingdom that fell before the Assyrians in 732 B.C.

Damascus.

It is Damascus to the best of my knowledge.

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