Nine Cities in Order of Recorded Founding Year, from Tripoli to Charleroi

The atlas places the founding of Tripoli between 800 and 701 BC, and the cited Wikipedia history section describes it as a Phoenician colony of the 8th century BC. It is now the largest city in northern Lebanon, 81 kilometers north of Beirut, and the northernmost seaport in the country.

Shkodër is recorded as founded in the 4th century BC as the Illyrian settlement of Skodra. It was conquered by Rome in 168 BC and became capital of the province of Praevalitana, and it sits on the plain between Lake Shkodër and the Albanian Alps at the confluence of the Buna, Drin and Kir rivers.

Junagadh's recorded founding year is 319 BC, the date given for its Uparkot Fort under the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta. The city also keeps rock edicts of Ashoka from about 250 BC at the foot of Mount Girnar, so its early record survives in stone.

Nitra carries the recorded year 826, taken from Wikidata's inception value, which makes it one of the oldest cities in Slovakia. It was once the center of the Principality of Nitra and is today the seat of Nitra Region, with about 78,353 residents and a reputation as the agricultural capital of Slovakia.

Cluj-Napoca is recorded with a founding year of 1213. It is the second most populous city in Romania, with 286,598 residents at the 2021 census, and was the official capital of the Grand Principality of Transylvania for some decades before the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867.

Cetinje's founding year is recorded as 1482, from the established date in its Wikipedia infobox. It was the former royal capital of Montenegro, sits on a small karst plain below Mount Lovcen, and keeps the status of honorary capital, with the president's official residence still there.

Voronezh is recorded as established in 1586, and the cited History section says the current city was founded that year. Its population rose from 889,680 at the 2010 census to 1,057,681 in 2021, making it the 14th most populous city in Russia, and it lies on the M4 highway linking Moscow with Novorossiysk.

Jaffna carries the recorded year 1621, from Wikidata's inception value, shortly after it fell under Portuguese rule in 1619; the atlas description also traces a Tamil kingdom here from the early 14th century. It then passed to the Dutch in 1658 and the British in 1795, and its name comes from a Portuguese adaptation of a Tamil phrase meaning port of the lyre.

Charleroi was founded in 1666 by the Spanish governor Francisco Castel Rodrigo and named for the five year old King Charles II of Spain, making it the youngest city on this path. After the Belgian Revolution of 1830 it became a center of coal, steel and glass, and it is now the largest city in Wallonia.