Largest European Cities(agglomeration) in History 7500 BC - 2020. Top 11 biggest cities in Europe

This video shows the most populated cities(agglomeration) in Europe through history from the first civilizations until nowadays.
This video shows the European history about the top 11 largest cities by population in European history from 7000 BC to current year 2020. This video shows Europe's largest city ancient history and demographics from 7000 BC to present year 2020.
The Population of these european cities is noted as per historical data and slight mistakes and fluctuations are possible as this data is very old and exact numbers is impossible but after many days of continuous research I have compiled this video and provided my best effort to make this data as accurate as possible, also the cities flags are given according to the today's current location of cities and for people to better understand as all of them are not historians and also because some of ancient flags are missing.
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Sources:
-Colin McEvedy & Richard Jones (1978), Atlas of World Population History
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-Angus Maddison (2003), Historical Statistic for the World Economy
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-Hohenberg and Lees
www.jstor.org/stable/494924?s...
-www.worldbank.org/
-www.oecd.org/
-www.un.org/en
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[@schrodinger6991]

Rome was impressive it took 1700 years till another city was able to reach a million citizens again.

[@mlchigan3016]

It is important to differentiate between metropolitan areas and cities. Paris has just over 2 million citizens, but its metropolitan area exceeds 12 million. Madrid has 3,305,408 citizens while its metropolitan area is just over 5 million and the province is close to 7 million. All the data are mixed.

[@wadysawskrzypczak6893]

The funniest things are today's flags of countries in cities from thousands of years ago.

[@Legilimentable]

Yay, Trier! My home town. Reached 90,000 people by about 300 AD and was (according to this video) the second largest city in Europe. Something must have gone wrong along the way because until today they only managed to get to 105,000 people 😅

[@kerrcampbell7407]

It's fascinating and impressive how many times Constantinople / Istanbul rose to the top and dropped right off the map only to rise back up to the top again. Really shows the historic importance and strategic geography of this unique city!

[@adpop750]

The year -5050: the 10th largest city in Europe is 17 people. The lack of data is very strong, I think it's not a unreasonable guess that at that time there be at least a few dozens (if not thousands) of settlements in Europe with 17 or more people.

[@jofresivilla4466]

I found it super interesting.

[@user-vp3rc2gy7j]

странно, что у всех городов современные флаги тех государств в которых эти города сейчас географически расположены или располагались, но почему то напротив Константинополя нет флага Турции

[@ew264]

Can yall imagine what a ghost town most of rome would have been after its population reduced from a million to 100 thousand in like 100 years

[@giannism6875]

Athens has made a massive comeback . It went from almost 400,000 in ancient times to just about 8000 in the early 1800’s, now at almost 4 million

[@LofasTheJumper]

It's truly amazing how accurately they counted each town's citizens even back then isn't it. 🤣

[@user-jv6qf3di1n]

очень впечатляет рост населения Ленинграда с 1941 по 1943. Прости им, ибо не ведают что творят

[@javihernandez2755]

I think here's a bit of a mess up conflating cities, urban areas, metropolitan areas, regions, etc... For example, the London population shown is that of the city (as in municipality, not the City of London) itself, while for Paris it includes the Metro Area, as Paris as a city has between 2 and 3M. For Madrid and Barcelona you picked the whole province, etc. I don't know the criteria for the rest but that information is inaccurate. (Source: I'm one of the 3 million inhabitants of Madrid province/metro area that's not part of Madrid city)

[@randyconnolly572]

There is something quite wrong with this visualization: it seems to just be using simple linear extrapolation since it doesn't show some well-documented population declines. For instance, the black death (1347-52) hit cities particularly hard, and killed somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50% of the urban population of Europe. Some cities (e.g., Florence) had documented numbers above 70% mortality). Likewise, Leningrad (St. Petersburg) suffered a death toll between 1-5 million during ww2, but this is not reflected here. Still, despite this criticism, it was fun to watch!

[@A3racada3ra]

What one also has to consider is the population density these numbers imply. Take Metro-Paris for example with around 11 million people: this is like more than one sixth of the whole French population clustered in one place. A similar scenario is true for London or Madrid. This also implies that most of the economic power is centralized as well, leaving many other regions in the respective country underdeveloped. In Germany, the situation is different. Here the population is much more spread throughout the whole country due to its federal structure (and of course historic reasons). Berlin accounts just for approximately 4% of the German population. Of course there are regional differences as well, but they are less pronounced. I think it's really interesting to see that these simple numbers tell us so much more about a country as a whole :D

[@Tazmodevil78]

A remark with regard to St. Petersburg. The siege of Leningrad started in 1941. In 1941-1942 almost 2 million people were evacuated. Plus those who died of nazi bombing, shelling, starvatioт, diseases etc. So about 700 000 inhabitants had stayed in the city by Jan 1944 (the end of the siege).

[@apexerman1]

It must've been fascinating to visit Rome in the Middle Ages. A city that was once inhabited by a million people only to lose a vast majority of its population. The ultimate tour of ruins.

[@SerPitr]

Wow Constantinople held the title of the largest city the most persistently, dethroned by Paris and london for a few centuries, only to come back for a revenge as Istanbul :O

[@goldeagle8051]

It took until 1810 for Europe to have another city of 1 million people after Rome. Makes you think how huge Rome really was, considering there were a lot less people in Europe overall back then.

[@croatsweareserbiancatholic7521]

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