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jyväskylä
but most buildings in this city are ugly commieblocks from 50s. it wasn't like that 100 years ago
jyväskylä is THE student city of finland, so it's also pretty diverse because of all the foreign students

I'm gonna do five ones that are close to me

>Gretna, Virginia
It was founded around 1904; however, it had been a train station for around 20 years prior.
The oldest building is Yates Tavern built around 1750 (wikipedia says late 17th to early 18th century, but that's not accurate)

>Altavista, Virginia
It's also a new town, founded in 1912 as a train station town.
The oldest building is Avoca Museum built in the 1755s. Charles Lynch, the guy who built it, got the land because of a grant from King George. Charles Lynch is famous because during Revolutionary War he established lynch courts that tried loyalists, and this came to be known as lynching.

>Lynchburg, Virginia
Founded in 1786 by John Lynch, (brother of Charles Lynch).
The Miller-Claytor House is the oldest, built in 1791

>Danville, Virginia
It doesn't have a technical founding. But the first proper settlement was in 1793.
I can't find the oldest building, but oldest I found was 1833.

>Straightstone, Virginia
This is where I live, and it's not an incorporated place.
But my family has at least inhabited been here since 1850s, and my grandmothers house is was built in early 20th century.

Also, for the buildings. A lot of this area suffered badly during ACW, so there are probably loads of buildings that used to exist, but were destroyed.

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Danville and Lynchburg were both capitals of the Confederacy during the late Civil War.
Danville used to be considered one of the best tobacco markets in the US, if not the world.
The river that runs through Danville, the Dan River, is named after Dan from the Bible, and was discovered when trying to mark border with North Carolina in 1600s.
Chapstick (the brand) was invented in Lynchburg

Paleo-Indians also inhabited the area since 11000 BC, but they didn't leave structures.

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no exact date but early middle ages
pic is a church from 1510

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>jyväskylä is THE student city of finland

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beautiful

The original city was founded sometime during the 3rd millenium B.C. Due to its strategic position it has been dismantled and rebuilt in the same place many times over the years, especially during the Ottoman conquest of the region.
The oldest historic site in the city is the ruin of one of the oldest asclepeia in Greece.
The oldest standing structure is the Byzantine castle originally built by Justinian I in the 6th century on top of the ancient acropolis' ruins.

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Roman colony founded near at phoenician city.

Cadiz?

the first town that was built here was founded by the Romans in 89 who named it Aquincum
present-day Budapest was born in 1873 after Buda, Óbuda and Pest were merged together - out of these three, Óbuda is the oldest, as it was founded in the 9th century by the invading Magyars, while Buda (situated further south from Óbuda) and Pest (located on the other side of the Danube opposite of Buda) were established in the 12th and 13th centuries

if ruins count, then the oldest still standing structure is the military amphitheatre of Óbuda, erected in the 3rd century, capable of seating up to 12,000 people.
if they don't, then it's the Red Hedgehog Inn, which was built in 1260 in Buda's Castle District

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We got Punic (and possibly older) remains.

>Finland
>1229

Turku is the oldest city in Finland and the doomchurch is the oldest building.

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First mentioned by the Romans in 374.
Oldest building still standing is pic related, it's from 1019.

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>Turku
>from Russian "torg"
The absolute state

The Swedish word for "market place" is torg too, but Swedes call Turku Åbo

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>settled in 1636
>built in 1754

oops forgot pic

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I live is Moscow and it was first mentioned in 1147
But my grea great grandfather from small village near Sergiev-Posad that older than discovering of America.

>The Swedish word for "market place" is torg too
lol i didn't know that, sounds based. We have very strong merchant culture for most of the history

This ugly house is the oldest building in Des Moines, built in 1846

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My town was founded around -300 by some Celts and since it have been here for more than 2 millenaries of history of existence i won't even try to sum it up.
Pic related is our cathedral, which is big enough to be seen from more than 20 km.

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>Your Cunt

Russia

>When was the village/city/town you live in founded?

1976, lol

>What is the oldest standing structure still around in that place?

I don't even know, it took about 5 years to build up this town from scratch. 50 years ago on this place was only taiga with bears and wolves straying around.

>Some history?

Well, I don't even know what to say aside this town was founded as one of the permanent settlements for oil industry workers in Northwest Siberia.

AMERICA FUCKING SUCKS god I hate this we have no history, this town isn't even a hundred years old and most of the buidlings were built in the 1960s

>Your cunt
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>When was the village/city/town you live founded?
No idea, but estimates say anything from 216-1000
>Whats the oldest standing structure?
Statue we built for queen vicky
>History?
Queen vicky visited and said it was nice.

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year 700-1200ish

When the first settlers came, they decide on tórshavn to be the location of the main thing, because of its position as geographic centrum of the islands. It was uninhabited at first, the oldest documents say there were two farms in 1200, but there could have been people before. Had around 300 people in 1800, now 20.000 live here in the biggest city and capital (fucking immigrants)

Pic, government buildings from around 1700. Built on top of the old thing meeting place.

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> If Baekje was not ruined, it could be capital of the 4rd Baekje
> There are huge palace and temple but have been turned into ruins (Both are listed on the World Heritage List)
> There is a grave of King of Baekje that the second confirmed
There is nothing after that.

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>Your Cunt
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>When was the village/city/town you live in founded? What is the oldest standing structure still around in that place? Some history?
It's considered to have been founded 1443 when Christopher of Bavaria gave the local monastery trading rights. The oldest "structure" is technically a basically non-existent pre-historic hillfort but the oldest "real" building is the monastery built in the 1480's.

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>Cape May, NJ.
>1620

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1253 (name mentioned), 1926 (city rights)
The oldest standing structure is some kind of a 13th century church to the north of the port. Pic rel's the church somewhere in the interwar period.
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Not much to talk about here, danzig got butthurt and elected some people that weren't very keen on sucking polish cock back in the 20s period so we had to build a port of our own and gdynia popped out. It was apparentaly useful for the germans during WWII so the port got bombed by the allies.

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Don't know when it was founded exactly, but it was first mentioned in the Domesday book, so probably between 900-1066
There's a Tudor house from the 1500s which is now a museum
There's an old story about William the Conquerer stopping at a tavern here or something on his way to London, but I don't know if there's any truth to it. It was also one of the favoured hunting grounds of Henry VIII who built a hunting lodge here, though it was later torn down to order to pay off a gambling debt

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>First document that mentions the city is from the 9th century

>Oldest standing structure
The tower from San Nicolás church, which was built in the 1200s. Oldest building is the church of San Jerónimo, built in the 1500s.

>History
Celtic settlement, later Roman settlement, later Visigoth settlement and then Muslim fortress. In the year 1085, the city was conquered by Castile and Christians replaced Muslims and Jews. It slowly became important thanks to the Courts, especially after the unification of Iberia (except Portugal). Philip II set his courts in the city and it became and important political center and the capital of Spain. There was a popular uprising in the second of May of 1808, after Napoleon’s occupation, and the French soldiers got BTFO by literal peasants. Too many things, but those are the “most important” I think.

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The town dates back from to the 9th Century, it takes its name after a Saint who established a monastery on a nearby hill in 620.
The monastery was destroyed at some point, only the foundations and some stones remain. But a chapel was built in the 1800s to house the remains of the Saint, pic rel

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St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The most eastern city in North America, and is considered the oldest European settlement in North America although that point is debatable. There aren't really a lot of old buildings here, for much of St. John's early history it was more of a fishing outpost than a permanent settlement, plus the city has burned to the ground twice over the years.There is some interesting aviation and wartime history here, due to our strategic location as the closest North American city to Europe. Today the city is economically depressed and many people have to move to other parts of Canada to find decent work.

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Interesting. What's the Red Hedgehog Inn? A tavern? If yes is it still active?

Well but you have beautiful nature and lots of space. America has its advantages

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>The oldest settlement nearby was Andautonia, from 1st and 5th century, but the first recorded appearance of the name Zagreb is dated to 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242.
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Zagreb
>Oldest standing structure
No idea what's *the* oldest, but pic related is from the 13th century and it's pretty decent looking.

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My city used to be a roman settlement. Since it has hot water springs, the romans built bathhouses and spas here for their soldiers. Later it became the Imperial residence of Karl der Große (Charlemagne for you non-German) and also the capital city of his empire. For several centuries, it was the place of coronation for German kings and queens.

Pic related is probably the oldest surviving building. The tower was built in the 8th century, is called Granusturm, named after the Roman's god of healing. It was a part of Karl der Große's former royal palace as well.

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>Sofia
The oldest settlements at the place are from the 6th century BC.
The oldest surviving building is this Roman church from the 4th century.

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Nürnberg. It was first mentioned in 1050, but the oldest settlements go back to around 850.
Hard to tell which is really the oldest building. Pic related is one of them. The lower parts of this tower date back to the 12th century. Back in the day all rich families had towes like this in the city as protection if they got in a bloody conflict with one of the other families. Today this is the last remaining of the towers. As you can see the top floors are newer because it got burned down 1-2 times and was damaged in several wars.

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yeah, it was the Castle District's only tavern until 1805 - and it only had seven rooms!
the garden of the building gave home to Buda's first theatre performances in the 1760s. in the late 1890s the building was repurposed as a cabaret club/brothel, while today you can find a small souvenir shop and a café inside

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Village was already established when the Domesday book was written in the 11th century, but it sits on a river and was an important crossing point in medieval times, so could well be older - the mill on the river definitely dates back to the 8th century, which means the road to it which my house stands on is probably at least 1400 years old. The current church dates back to the 13th century, I think that's the oldest building.

Within a 10 mile radius there is a late iron age hill fort built by the Celts, various Roman roads & other sites, an intact 1000+ year old Anglo-Saxon church, Norman castles, and a major English civil war battlefield.

>Canada/Vancouver
>1827 when fort langley opened. The oldest building in the region is inside the fort.

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Founded in 1763 on a spring to be the first town in the county. Pic is one of the older buildings (I'm not sure if there are older ones but this one has been here for at least 150 years). It's a church of dunkers, which were characterized for the baptisms being "dunked" into the holy water. The churched gained the name Dunker Church and became a name of a point in an American Civil War battle. This building was shelled throughout the battle and eventually collapsed. It was eventually rebuilt on the original foundation. There is another building of a farm that was burned down by the CSA becase they were worried about US Sharpshooters, a farmhouse that was owned by people I am nearly directly related to, but since only the ice house survived the fire, it is actually not a standing structure because some of the original foundation was destroyed.

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roughly around the beginning of the first century BC
>history
It was a small township for most of it's history, it was chiefly inhabited by two major clans (Banu Thaqif and Banu Sufyan, and they are still around to this very day). Some other scattered bedouin clans immigrated but they only inhabited the desert parts outside of the main town. It's situated on the top of a long chain of mountains and has an elevation of 1800+ meters above sea level, the weather is nice.

This town gained a bit of fame after Muhammad came to spread Islam because they kicked him out and threw rocks at him when he first came to the town, this gave the town's inhabitants and natives a sinister cultural reputation that some people still believe to this day.

Afterwards it was occupied by the Ottomans for the vast majority of it's history up to the 1920's, there was once a huge wall spanning around the entirety of the town but it's gone now. The town had to be re-occupied by Ottoman troops in the 1600's due to a few local Arabs rebelling against the Ottomans and it was besieged and captured without a shot fired, afterwards the Ottomans built a huge wall surrounding the city and several fortresses and a large barracks. Most of these are gone now but some are still around.

there's also an ancient trail that's been in use for 2000 years which cuts through the steep hejaz mountains down to mecca, it's still preserved and around. new roads were built which cut the trip to mecca down to roughly 40-50 minutes only, but for people who want to travel the way people before technology did, they can use that trail, which makes the journey take up to a few days.

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I recognise that church

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Which village?

Exeter (or Isca) was founded by Roman settlers in 55 AD
Part of the wall they built to surround it is still there, but the oldest building still standing is St Nicholas Priory, built in 1087.

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why am i not allowed to post pictures on this board anymore

Move to europe then, swine.

Yep that's the one. Bloodiest day in US history

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>Bastrop, Texas

Was founded in 1827 by Anglos traveling with Steven F. Austin.

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Ely, Cambridgeshire

673, this isn't the oldest but it's almost 1000 years old

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Almost got a job there, full of chinky tourists when I visited

I live in Nitra which is the oldest town in Slovakia. The first mention is from the 9th century but people theorize that people (Germans) were living in the general area around 400 AD. The Slavs arrived here in the 6th century. I am not really sure what is the oldest building in Nitra, however we have a really old church on a mountain from the 11th century

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It was a small town in the doomsday book so that's at least 1000 years

>dude had ranch
>dude sold ranch to city
>city built planned community in the 80's
>oldest building is some simple wooden church/school/house combo from the late 1800's
Such is history on the west coast
Its pretty fucking boring

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My hometown is quite new (established at the end of the 15th century). The oldest still standing building is the Bullet Mosque from the 17th century. It was part of a huge complex of buildings (Bullet Inn) which was one of the biggest of its kind (according to a 17th century source it had stables for 2000 camels and 3000 horses)

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this is nearby, it was build about 5.000 years ago

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I took a shit on it once

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>1072, but there are roman ruins so there probably were older settlements
The bridge is the oldest standing structure (1080), but heavily modified due to the napoleonic wars and also it was adapted for cars in the 19th century

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people who say this always don't actually know much american history let alone any colonial history
we're not europe no shit

My town was founded by Gauls and still has a Gaulish name as most cities in my region

settled 1681, town founded 1702
Bolton Mansion from 1687 is the oldest building here

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Oldest I can date back to is 937. It's a shame I can't get the town's exact history from when it was founded. The oldest surviving building today is from 1875, which is a sad considering the town's 1000+ year old history

The town where I grew up was founded in 1911 by cr*ollos who yet again chose a bad place to build a settlement as it sits on a bunch of swamps.
The "city" where I live now was re-founded and renamed by cr*ollos in the 19th century, as there was a previous settlement from the 16th cenurywith a different name in the same place, lands occupied by indigenous people, but that was abandoned later and moved to a near location.

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50 AD
Wikipedia says it's the London Wall dating from ~200 AD fragments of which are dotted about the city, didn't know that actually

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pretty cool that

original wall was maintained until the 18th century, and now is mostly just crumbling parts of wall

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Varg burned it down sadly.

There's a rural chapel from ~1830
It is said that this zone might have been inhabited in the early history, as there is an archeological site near a hill.
(Where I live is quite rural, yet urban in some things)

Växjö has been populated since the early stone age but it wasn't a proper city until at least the 1000's with the rise of christianity

The oldest building here is our church and it was constructed somewhere around the 1100's, but a lot of extensions and additions have been added throughout the years so it's not in its original shape

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No idea but there was a hillfort here in the iron age already

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2. Portuguese settlers first arrived in the late 18th century, some of them runaways from the Spanish invasion of 1763. In the following century the industry of dried meat became highly successful and the village of Pelotas was granted the title of city in 1835. The cities located in the coastline mostly worked around drying meat, which came from the cattle-raising countryside (the pampas, bordering Uruguay and Argentina), and selling the product to the other provinces. The dried meat was called charque. It was mainly used to feed slaves. By the 1900s Pelotas became very wealthy and the second most important city in the state. There were serious attempts to turn it into a Parisian city. It fell into decline after the 1930s and never recovered. The oldest building I know of is the Theatro 7 de Abril, built by the liberal elite in 1834. It was named after the day Pedro I abdicated in 1831. The emperor was highly despotic and at odds with the Liberal party.

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>1. Your Cunt
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>2. When was the village/city/town you live in founded? What is the oldest standing structure still around in that place? Some history?
1537. The port, which is actually older than the city, it was built in 1535. It used to be the capital of the richest province of Portuguese America (and I believe that for a time it was the richest colony in all America); it wasn't the first capital of the province tho, to become that we had to wage a war against a neighbour city, popularly called our "twin city". We were invaded by the Dutch in 1630 and the occupation lasted until 1654, lots of structures built by them are still around, such as bridges (the city is actually an island), and I even have some Dutch blood and a Dutch surname. It was here, in a battle against the Dutch, that the Brazillian army was formed, and the city was also at the center of nine revolts and wars against either the Portuguese or the Brazillian empire, that's more revolts than any other province in Brazil.

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>I even have some Dutch blood and a Dutch surname

t. Joãozinho Vanderley Filho

nice to see a fellow recifense on this board

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>1818

the town I live in was founded 1959

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First founded at around the year 1048, but the area contains ruins, fossils and the like from stone age settlements from about 8400 ad. The oldest building is the old Aker Church, first built in 1100, but as it has gone through several plunderings, fires and battles, it has been restored and rebuilt several times

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