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Biggest Cities of Europe in 500 AD with a Map
With the help of a map, can you name the most populous cities of Europe with an estimated population of over 4,000 in 500 AD?
Click on the map to zoom in.
Sources used for population estimates listed in this Pastebin.
Both historical and modern-day names accepted.
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Last updated: February 13, 2025
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Most of Europe at this time was devastated and depopulated due the barbarian invasions, which made it very difficult to collect data for the region. Events that caused other major demographic changes, like the Plague of Justinian (the death toll of which is still unclear), the Gothic War of 535-554 that depopulated the Italian peninsula and the Avar–Byzantine wars of the late 6th century/early 7th century in the Balkans that caused much destruction and leveled many urban centres were also yet to occur.
This means that information here might indeed be subject to error, but there's unfortunately not much I can do about that.
If you would apply that to modern cities with London/Paris comming in for third place in Europe at roughly 10 million peoples it woudl mean that Istanbul would have 100 mio inhabitants (more than Germany, same region as the whole of Turkey) and Moscow at number two would sit pretty at roughly 50 mio People
This includes Rome, which possibly dropped to as low as few thousand in the mid-6th century, making Constantinople the only city with over 40,000 people on the continent at time.