Biggest Cities of the Fatimid Caliphate in the late 10th century

    1. Fustat	 (Cairo)					135k				(1)
    2. Kairouan							80k				(1)
    3. Tinnis							80k				(1)
    4. Balarm (Palermo)						75k				(1)
    5. Jerusalem						60k				(1)
    6. Damascus							50k				(1)
    7. Qus							45k				(1)
    8. Alexandria						35k				(5)
    9. Mahdia							35k				(3)
    10. Mecca							35k				(1)
    11. Fez							30k				(1)
    12. Ramla							25k				(14)
    13. Bahnasa							20k				(5)
    14. Constantine						20k				(1)
    15. Damietta						20k				(1)
    16. Sijilmasa						20k				(1)
    17. El Mahalla El Kubra					18k				(5)
    18. Acre							15k				(1)
    19. Ashir							15k				(19) ~30 ha, Zirid capital, population deported from Tlemcen, high density?
    20. Faiyum							15k				(5)
    21. Gabès							15k				(12) ~30 ha, high density medina
    22. Mansouria						15k				(4) 100 ha, 150/ha
    23. Rosetta							15k				(5)
    24. Sousse							15k				(11) ~30 ha, high density medina
    25. Tunis							15k				(1)
    26. Tiberias						12k				(16) ~80 ha, 150/ha
    27. Tripoli, Lebanon					12k				(5) 80 ha, 150/ha
    28. Bilbeis							11k				(5)
    29. Al-Basra						10k				(20)
    30. Algiers							10k				(10)  ~20 ha, high density medina
    31. Damanhur						10k				(5)
    32. Monastir						10k				(8) ~20 ha, high density medina
    33. Menouf							10k				(5)
    34. Sfax							10k				(7) ~20 ha, high density medina
    35. Tahert (Tagdemt)					10k				(2) 70 ha, status uncertain, 150/ha
    36. Tripoli							10k				(1)

    • (0) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.31430/almuntaqa.2.1.0024 – Population density used for a dense medina quarter = 500 per hectare
    • (1) https://archive.org/details/fourthousandyear0000chan
    • (2) https://gyazo.com/b59cf7e4f6fa47ba0cd3293e78a691b5
    • (3) https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1293&context=ccr
    • (4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansouria,_Tunisia
    • (5) https://archive.org/details/medievalregionst0000russ
    • (7)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina_of_Sfax#Architecture
    • (8) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330292046_Visualizing_urban_sprawl_effects_of_a_Tunisian_city_a_new_urban_spatial_configuration_of_Monastir#pf4
    • (10) https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/jk/ft8c6009jk/figures/ft8c6009jk_00001.gif
    • (11) https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/498/
    • (12) https://gyazo.com/3cd4e8d04b99c84dc785367fac417b5e – rough estimate from old buildings
    • (14) https://www.historytoday.com/archive/ramla-palestines-forgotten-capital
    • (16) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tiberias-map-of-the-early-Islamic-city-courtesy-of-the-Israel-Antiquities-Authority_fig5_231769105
    • (19) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achir
    • (20) https://www.barpublishing.com/anatomy-of-a-medieval-islamic-town-al-basra-morocco.html