While I realize that Calgacus' City Lists are relatively well-done, I felt that some lists just weren't up to my (admittedly anal-retentive) standards. I noticed such things as Jamestown as the fifth American city (which makes no sense, really), and inconsistencies in spellings and variants. Thus, like all good nerds, I conducted research. The following lists are my attempt to create more accurate and consistent city lists.

My policy has been to balance the numerical placement of cities with their historical significance, not simply size. Thus, I have taken cultural, trade, and military issues into account in determining "importance" (which is a rather arbitrary term).

I was quite pleased to find that many of the Civ 4 city lists are substantially improved, and since a plethora of cities is no longer strategically vital in the game, there's no longer such a problem. I still prefer to use my own lists, though.

A Note on Names:
I have used the standard name from a nation's language if it uses the Latin alphabet. (For Austria I have used the German, but I also provide the primary name in Hungarian, Czech, etc. For Spain I use Castilian; please don't send me any angry letters, Catalonians.) Thus, I have Köln instead of Cologne, and Warszawa instead of Warsaw. In doing this I have used (gasp!) diacritics, such as áccents and ümlauts. For nations whose languages don't (or didn't) use the Latin alphabet, I have tried to use the standard romanization. (That means Pinyin for Chinese. No way would I use Wade-Giles. Or that crazy Yale system...)

By the way, they're in alphabetical order.

On Page 1:
Arabia
Austria-Hungary
The Aztec Empire
Babylonia
Byzantium
Carthage
China
Egypt: Ancient | Ptolemaïc
France
Germany
Greece
The Inca Empire

On Page 2:
India
The Iroquois Confederacy
Japan
Mali
Mayan City-States
Mongolia
The Netherlands
The Ottoman Empire
Persia: Achaemenid | Sassanid
Poland-Lithuania
Portugal
Rome
Russia: Tsarist | Soviet
Scandinavia
Spain
The United Kingdom
The United States

For your convenience, all of the above lists can be downloaded as a single text file here.

More city lists, particularly those of less important nations, can be found on my page of other city lists.

Please email me your compliments, comments, or complaints, or send me a private message at CivFanatics Fora. Your input would probably be appreciated. Thank you.

Arabia
Mecca
Baghdad
Damascus
Jerusalem
Fustat [Cairo]
Basra
Medina
Kufa
Aleppo
Muscat
Samarra
Najran
Mosul
Khorasan
Karbala
Shiraz
Najaf
Tunis
Aden
Isfahan
Merv
Córdoba
Kairouan
Rabat
Tabriz
Samarkand
Tripoli
Marrakech
Balkh
Hormuz
Fez
Suhar
Bukhara
Alexandria
Tabuk
Hamadan
Tehran
Sana'a
Fayyum
Granada
Jedda
Acre
Shihr
Mashhad
Aydab
Mahdia
Beirut
Ardabil
Mansura
Homs
Asyut
Taif
Anjar
Tabuk
Bayt Ras
Hama
Yamama
Derbent
Kabul
Amman

Special thanks to Doc Tsiolkovski for his advice on the German city list.

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