Twelve Cities and Towns from Kourion to New Corinth in Order of Founding

Kourion was settled by colonists from Argos on a limestone promontory above Episkopi Bay around the twelfth century BC, after Mycenaean civilization collapsed. Its page records the founding year as the 1050s BCE and describes its abandonment after Arab raids in 648 to 649 CE.

Ile-Ife is recorded as founded sometime between 1000 BC and 500 BC, and Yoruba tradition attributes its founding to the deity Olodumare through Obatala. By 900 AD it was an important West African emporium, and it is now the most populous city in Osun State, Nigeria.

The Heuneburg is a Celtic hillfort beside the Danube in southern Germany, active in the Hallstatt Iron Age of the seventh to fifth centuries BC. Around 600 BC it was ringed with a mudbrick wall about six meters high, a Mediterranean-influenced style unique in Celtic Europe, and it was abandoned by the fifth century BC.

Feodosia was founded by Greek colonists from Miletus in the sixth century BC as Theodosia. It later became the Genoese trading colony of Kaffa in the late thirteenth century, and it is now a Black Sea resort on the Crimean coast.

Isca Dumnoniorum began around AD 55 as a Roman legionary fortress for the Second Augustan Legion, on the site of present-day Exeter. After the legion moved to Caerleon around AD 75 it became a civilian tribal capital, and about 70 percent of its Roman walls survive today.

Caernarfon grew up on the site of the Roman fort of Segontium, established around AD 80. Its castle was begun after Edward I conquered Wales in 1283, and the castle and town walls were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.

Higüey was founded in 1503 under Spanish conquest by Juan de Esquivel as Salvaleón de Higüey. Its Basilica of La Altagracia is a major pilgrimage destination, and tens of thousands of pilgrims visit every 21 January.

Bayamo was founded in 1513 as the second of seven cities established by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in Cuba, and its page records the founding date of 5 November 1513. It was a stronghold of the independence struggle in the Ten Years' War of 1868 to 1878.

New Amsterdam was founded in 1624 at the southern tip of Manhattan as the capital of New Netherland and a base for the Dutch West India Company. English frigates took it without bloodshed on 27 August 1664 and renamed it New York.

Ponce was founded on 12 August 1692 and named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, a great-grandson of the conquistador. It gained city status in 1877 and recorded 137,491 residents in the 2020 census.

Herrnhut was founded in 1722 when Count Zinzendorf invited Moravian religious refugees to settle on his estates in Upper Lusatia, and it became the principal settlement of the Moravian Church. It was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2024 as part of the Moravian Church Settlements.

Modern Corinth was built as New Corinth from 1858, after an earthquake destroyed the earlier settlement three kilometers to the southwest, and it was rebuilt again after damage in 1928 and a fire in 1933. Its page records 1858 as the founding year, and the Corinth Canal, completed in 1893, passes about four kilometers to its east.