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Argos, Greece, located on the Peloponnese, is one of the most ancient cities of the world. It was a major settlement during the Mycenaean period, and during the classical Greek period Argos was a rival of Sparta.

The most notable ancient monument in the city today is the renowned Heraion of Argos.

Most Ancient European Towns Network: Argos, Beziers, Cadiz, Colchester, Cork, Evora, Maastricht, Roskilde, Tongeren, Worms.

Asmara (Asmera) is the capital and largest city in the northeastern African country of Eritrea. Asmara is on the edge of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Great Rift Valley and of the Eritrean highlands.

Astana is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan. Astana is located in central Kazakhstan on the Ishim River in a very flat, semi-desert steppe region.

Astana has the 2nd coldest capital after Ulaanbaatar and before Ottawa.

FYI ~ The word “astana” is Kazakh and means “capital”.

Asuncion is the capital and largest city of Paraguay. Known as “Mother of Cities”, it is one of the oldest cities in South America and the longest continually inhabited area in the River Plate Basin.

Athens, the capital and largest city of Greece is one of the world's oldest cities, having been continuously inhabited for at least 7000 years, with its recorded history spanning around 3,400 years. Athens sits on the Attica peninsula which projects into the Aegean Sea.

Classical Athens was a powerful city-state and a center for the arts, learning and philosophy, the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, and is called the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy.

Athens takes its name from the goddess Athena; Theseus was the mythical founder of Athens.

Notable people associate with Athens include Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Herodotus, Phidias, Plato, Socrates, Solon, Sophocles, Thucydides, Xenophon.

• “When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.” ~ Edith Hamilton

Atlanta is the capital and largest city in the U.S. State of Georgia; the Atlanta metropolitan area has grown quickly in recent history with over 5 million people.

Atlanta was founded as a railway station in the 1830-40s; during the American Civil War Union general William Tecumseh Sherman ordered Atlanta burnt to the ground in 1864.

Auckland, on the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with a population of over 1.4 million residents, 31 percent of the country's population; it also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world.

The central part of the urban area is on a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. Popularly known as the “City of Sails”, it is one of the few cities in the world to have harbors on two separate major bodies of water.

Auckland, considered an “Alpha-City”, is not the capital of New Zealand; Wellington is the capital.

Notable people associated with Auckland include Sir Edmund Hillary.

Auroville is an “experimental” community, near Puducherry in South India.

Auroville, a project of Sri Aurobindo Society, was founded in 1968 with the “progress of humanity towards its splendid future by bringing together people of goodwill and aspiration for a better world.”

• Cities of India

Avila, located in central Spain and surrounded by mountains, has been a fortess since pre-Roman times.

Avila is noted for its harsh climate, archeologically significant medieval city walls, and churches of Romanques and gothic styles.

Notable people associated with Avila include: Teresa of Avila, Isabella of Castile, John of the Cross, George Santayana.

Axum, or Askum, in northern Ethiopia, was the original capital of the eponymous kingdom of Axum. The archeological ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.