Populations of Medieval Urban Areas
Source: The Medieval Technology Pages
| 15,000-22,000 | 23,000-49,000 | 50,000-125,000 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 528 AD | Hamadan | Carthage | Alexandria |
| Istakhr | Ctesiphon | Antioch | |
| Milan | Ephesus | Constantinople | |
| Miletus | Salonica | Rome | |
| Ravenna | |||
| Rayy | |||
| Sardia | |||
| Smyrna | |||
| 737 AD | Ctesiphon | Alexandria | Constantinople |
| Fustat | Antioch | ||
| Hamadan | Basra | ||
| Kuta | Damascus | ||
| Mosul | |||
| Nishapur | |||
| Rayy | |||
| Salonika | |||
| Shiraz | |||
| Toledo | |||
| Wasit | |||
| 1000 AD | Damascus | Alexandria | Baghdad |
| Fez | Antioch | Constantinople | |
| Hamadan | Basra | ||
| Isfahan | Cairo | ||
| Kalrouan | Cordoba | ||
| Mecca | |||
| Mosul | |||
| Nishapur | |||
| Palermo | |||
| Rayy | |||
| Seville | |||
| 1212 AD | Aleppo | Alexandria | Baghdad |
| Brescia | Antioch | Cairo | |
| Bruges | Basra | Constantinople | |
| Bukhara | Damascus | ||
| Cordoba | Milan | ||
| Florence | Samarkand | ||
| Ghent | Shiraz | ||
| Hamadan | Tunis | ||
| Herat | Venice | ||
| Isfahan | |||
| Kairouan | |||
| Konya | |||
| London | |||
| Mahalia | |||
| Marrakesh | |||
| Mecca | |||
| Mosul | |||
| Naples | |||
| Nishapur | |||
| Novgorod | |||
| Padua | |||
| Palermo | |||
| Paris | |||
| Pisa | |||
| Qua | |||
| Rabat-Salé | |||
| Rayy | |||
| Rome | |||
| Sana | |||
| Seville | |||
| Tabriz | |||
| Toledo | |||
| Verona | |||
| Wasit | |||
| 1346 AD | Antwerp | Alexandria | Cairo |
| Avignon | Baghdad | Constantinople | |
| Basra | Barcelona | Florence | |
| Bergamo | Bologna | Genoa | |
| Cologne | Brescia | Ghent | |
| Damietta | Bruges | Milan | |
| Ferrara | Cordoba | Paris | |
| Herat | Cremona | Tabriz | |
| Isfahan | Damascus | Venice | |
| Liege | Fez | ||
| Lille | Granada | ||
| Lucca | London | ||
| Lubeck | Marrakesh | ||
| Magdeburg | Naples | ||
| Mahalia | Padua | ||
| Mantua | Rouen | ||
| Mecca | Samarkand | ||
| Messina | Shiraz | ||
| Modena | Verona | ||
| Mosul | |||
| Nishapur | |||
| Novgorod | |||
| Nuremberg | |||
| Palermo | |||
| Palma | |||
| Parma | |||
| Pavia | |||
| Piacenza | |||
| Pisa | |||
| Prague | |||
| Qua | |||
| Rabat-Salé | |||
| Rome | |||
| Sana | |||
| Seville | |||
| Siena | |||
| Sultaniyah | |||
| Toledo | |||
| Valencia | |||
| Vicenza | |||
| Wasit | |||
| Yasd | |||
| 1483 AD | Alexandria | Aleppo | Cairo |
| Aysut | Antwerp | Florence | |
| Baghdad | Barcelona | Genoa | |
| Basra | Bologna | Istanbul | |
| Bergamo | Brescia | Milan | |
| Bordeaux | Bruges | Naples | |
| Bursa | Brussels | Paris | |
| Damietta | Cologne | Tabriz | |
| Edirne | Cordoba | Venice | |
| Herat | Cremona | ||
| Isfahan | Damascus | ||
| Liège | Ferrara | ||
| Gdansk | Fez | ||
| Kairouan | Ghent | ||
| Magdeburg | Granada | ||
| Mahalia | Isfahan | ||
| Mecca | Lille | ||
| Messina | Lisbon | ||
| Modena | London | ||
| Mosul | Lubeck | ||
| Novgorod | Mantua | ||
| Palma | Marrakesh | ||
| Parma | Moscow | ||
| Pavia | Nuremberg | ||
| Piacenza | Padua | ||
| Prague | Palermo | ||
| Rabat-Salé: | Rome | ||
| Sana | Rouen | ||
| Siena | Samarkand | ||
| Strassbourg | Seville | ||
| Toledo | Shiraz | ||
| Ulm | Toulouse | ||
| Wroclaw | Tunis | ||
| Valladolid | Valencia | ||
| Viacenza | Verona | ||
| Vienna | |||
| Yasd |