When was the city, town or village you live in was first mentioned in any historical document, as proof that it really existed that long ago? I mean your town could have existed from the dawn of time, but that document makes it sort of official. For my town, it's 1283, when some bloke was given Lordship of our town and some other bloke put that in writing.
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The earliest record is of “urbs Gyddanyzc” from 997 written down by Johannes Canaparius, today named Gdańsk, or Danzig in German
First written mentioning was in 838, but they found 170000 y.o. tools here, so the location was inhabited long, long before that.
The village I used to live in was in the Doomsday book 1086 under a different name which has evolved over the years.
My current village is quite modern at 1736.
Gent Belgium, kinda around Ceasars conquest of Gaul. Some tribal village that did Guerilla war against the Romans, so they bured down the swampy forest and put a camp here. Which became the basis for our current city.
It was founded by the Romans between 15 BCE and 10 BCE, probably on top of some older Iberian settlement from between 6th and 1st centuries BCE (the only vestige of that settlement found was lost during the 19th century so we can’t date it).
First documented 1391. Small village east of Cologne.
Older, because by then it was already a lively village. The next big village and main village of the municipality my village belongs to was first mentioned at the end of the 9th century. The municipality exist in its today borders since about 1131.
Since there is an ancient road for the transport of iron ore from its mines to the Rhine, which dated to about the 6th century BC, you can find marks of settlements from that time. It was a perfect place for a customs station.
Birth place: mentioned in some documents around CE 800, current place of residence: Mentioned by the Romans around 40 BCE.
It was 882 in an financial report of a monastery, which says that a free man from the town paid 8 pfennig per year to the monastery.
The story goes that the first settler of Iceland was Ingólfur Arnarson who settled in Reykjavík in the year 874.
I live very close by a literal prehistoric site. It was obviously not called how it’s called now, but it’s proof that it was inhabited.
If that’s not what you are asking then the town I actually live in took its contemporary name only at the end of the 1800 after the unification of Italy.
The closest big city is Naples, and I don’t really have to explain how much history that city has.
1895.. people first moved to my village when a man decided to build a factory in the middle of nowhere (now my town).
The earliest record under its current name of A Coruña or an archaic variant thereof is from June 1st 1208, when King Alfonso IX of Leon granted the privileges of Benavente to the town of Crunia (which had been called Faro until then).
Faro was the shortened version of Faro Bregancio or rather Pharum Brigantium, so we should go back in time to the time the city was called Brigantium, which is first documented in Claudius Ptolemy.
My birthplace (because the hospital is there) – Sirmium – 4th century BC. As something close to it’s modern name Sremska Mitrovica in 1180 (Civitas Sancti Dimitrii)
My hometown – Šid in 1702. It was in Habsburg military frontier on their border with Ottoman Empire.
A Charles V document in 1534 that gives to some albanian refugees tax privileges and the area assigned to them to create the town
My hometown in Ireland ,somewhere around the 1170’s when the Normans came.The town I live in now(in Italy),the ninth century.The church across the road from me is also from that time.
Apparently Caesar gave a speech to the Parisii in 53 B.C.E. but the Roman settlement of Lutetia was founded in 52 B.C.E.
First historical mentions? 1055 in the Chronica Boemorum. Apparently it was a roman fort in the 2nd century and the oldest findings of human habitation (Stone tools of hunters) in the city date back to 40,000 years ago.
My current city has been a settlement since the neolithic, but first mention is a drawing on the Bayeux Tapestry, when Guillaume le Bâtard (better known as *William the Conqueror* by those he conquered) besieged it in 1064 (or 1065 it’s unclear), he left for the British Isles a short time later.
Well, I’ve read book about history of my village, but I don’t have it nearby. I guess it was smth XIV-ish century. I remember about what document was about – taxes to Duke or bishop of Płock in some particular amount of barrels of honey.
Varna (Odessos) had its first historical mention the 6th century BCE. The modern form was founded by a Greek colony but prior to this it was also inhabited from the Neolitic period with the oldest gold treasure in the world found there
Pilzno Poland first mention in documments in 1123. And the earliest found tools date back to 8200 BC. Recently when the town square was renovated they found some brick foundations which were dated to 900. Even had a school trip to look at some bricks 😉
Well the story of my town is pretty weird, because it was found very late.
The core of San lorenzo de el escorial was built in 1767, but it only got its independence from the nearby town of El escorial in 1836. However that’s only half the story.
One could consider the monastery of San Lorenzo as a mention to the city. In that case the date goes back to 1563 when the king mandated the construction of his state palace near the very small town of El escorial (first mentioned in 1443)
Næstved, Declared a market town in 1135, where the church wanted to make a monastery for the Benedictines. We have found archeological evidence, that the city likely has existed since the bronze age/early iron age.
We have also found possible evidence, that the city was created when multiple smaller settlements merged together. We have also found early Viking homes from the 600 century, the outlines of one can be found near Sct. Peders Kirke.
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I was born in Minsk. Its first mention was back-dated to 1067, when it was destroyed by Iziaslav I of Kyiv or his brothers. One of the most beautiful and terrible and haunting depictions of battle in the Eastern Slavic literature of that era was written regarding that battle.
Birthplace: Ca 170 AD mentioned by Publius Cornelius Tacitus (Noviomagus).
Current residence: 1326 AD (‘Lantsmaer’) a few fishers and chicken farms just north of Amsterdam.
First records of the Roman military camp: 97 CE
Elevation to Roman _municipium_ (city rights): 212 CE
First records of the modern name: 881 CE in the so-called Salzburg Annals
Granted full city rights: 1221 CE
The city in question is Vienna, Austria.
I live in a small town in north-western Germany. First mention of it was in 993 (though not under its current name), the first mention of the Latinized current name was in 1075. Those were some church documents praising it as a church settlement in comparison to some nearby town. But archeological findings show that people started permanently settling here at least about 7000 years ago, possibly much earlier since they’ve also found Neanderthal remains here.
There are mentions of a roman villa that gave the current city it’s name. But it’s technically not the same since the gallo-roman town was destroyed in the 3rd century by a flood.
After that it’s mentioned in the 11th century.
The name “Zagreb” was first used in 1094 at the founding of the Zagreb diocese in Kaptol by hungarian king Ladislaus I. Gradec became a free royal city in 1242. Later in 1850 Kaptol and Gradec unfied into todays Zagreb with neighbouring settlements.
Ok this is interesting, because I’m from Rome and I’m having trouble locating the exact first mention of it! Settlements in the area are very ancient, like 2nd millennium BC, but the conventional date for its foundation is April 21st, 753 BC. Archaeological data point that the unification of early separate settlements into a single city did indeed happen around that date. I can’t actually find the first inscription mentioning Rome though! If anyone has some ideas please comment here!
Helsingborg is officially mentioned as a city for the first time in a letter dated to 21 May 1085, written by the Danish king Canute IV (Canute the Holy). That is the also the official birthday of the city which is still commemorated today.
Helsingborg is actually mentioned by name even earlier though – by the German church historian Adam of Bremen in 1070, who describes Helsingborg as a frequent location for Vikings to hang out, although he doesn’t explicitly name it as a city.
The site had been settled way earlier than that though – at least since the 800s. Due to its very strategic location within the Danish kingdom at the narrowest point of the Sound connecting the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and the Danish core provinces of Zealand and Scania, it had been a highly important site ever since the earliest unification of Denmark. This makes Helsingborg one of the very oldest continuous settlements in Scandinavia, and actually quite a bit older than its twin city Helsingør (Elsinore) on Zealand.
First record of Nice being mentioned apparently goes back to around 350 BC, when it was called Nikaia by the Phocaeans from Massalia (now Marseille). This comes up in ancient texts from historians like Strabo and Livy, who talk about the city’s founding by the Greeks. In the city there is actually another settlement mentioned by Plin the ancient, Cemeneleum, dating back to first century BC. Nikaia was a greek settlement, Cemeneleum a Roman one, now both are part of the city of Nice.