Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

The oldest known dolmen are in Western Europe, where they were set in place around 7000 years ago, at the same time as the ancient civilisations of Egypt, India, and the Middle East.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Liberal scholar Robert W. Funk and the Jesus Seminar place the Egerton fragment in the 2nd century, perhaps as early as 125, which would make it as old as the oldest fragments of John.

This temple site is the oldest known man-made place of worship.

Built soon after the conquest of northwest Africa, the first mosque built in this region is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ) founded by the Umayyad general Uqba Ibn Nafi during the second half of the 7th century and considered as the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.

This temple site may be the oldest known human-made place of worship.

The oldest, and arguably most famous, head race is the Head of the River Race, founded by Steve Fairbairn in 1926 which takes place each March on the river Thames in London, United Kingdom.

* Stockholm Jazz Festival is one of Sweden's oldest festivals, the festival takes place at Skeppsholmen in July.

Taxonomy has been called " the world's oldest profession ", and naming and classifying our surroundings has likely been taking place as long as mankind has been able to communicate.

It may be connected with the root of break, for its early uses are confined to broken pieces or bits of bread, the Latin crustum, and it was not until the 12th century that it took the place — as the generic name for bread — of hlaf ( in Gothic: modern English loaf ), which appears to be the oldest Teutonic name.

Throughout the year many events take place on Madeira Drive ( a piece of roadway on Brighton's seafront ), which was constructed in order to host what is commonly held to be the world's oldest motor race, the Brighton Speed Trials, which has been running since 1905.

The name " Canaveral " ( Cañaveral in Spanish, meaning " reed bed " or " sugarcane plantation ") is the third oldest surviving European place name in the US.

The oldest version of the story, the burial of Polynices takes place during Oedipus ' reign in Thebes, before Oedipus marries Jocasta.

Later in the story, it is revealed that he has appeared in Delain multiple times, under multiple guises, the oldest of which that is mentioned in the book took place over five hundred years in the past.

One of the oldest techniques that has been used often, is that of teichoscopy or the " viewing from the wall ", in which actors observe events beyond the confines of the stage, such as a distant battle, and discuss it on stage while the battle is taking place, as opposed to the event being reported by messengers at a later time after the event has happened.

The Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ), established in 670 AD, is the oldest and most prestigious place of worship in the western Islam ic world.

* Newington Green Unitarian Church – London's oldest nonconformist place of worship

The oldest and possibly largest drag king contest in the world takes place in San Francisco, California.

In 1976, GothCon ( the oldest still-active gaming convention in the world ) took place for the first time.

The Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival takes place late each September, and is California's oldest celebration of its winemaking heritage.

Large tourist attractions are the Main court, the Doesburgse mustard factory and ' De Waag ', which according to reports is the oldest public place in the Netherlands.

DownTown ( also known as The Port or E-Port ), the oldest and perhaps the most diverse place in the City, is a collection of old world Elizabeth, new America, and a mix of colonial-style houses and apartment buildings that stretch east of Routes 1 & 9 to its shores.

St. Paul's is now known as the Most Blessed Sacrament Church, and it is the oldest existing Catholic place of worship in Pennsylvania and the fourth oldest Catholic structure in the thirteen original colonies.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

* The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is the oldest Jewish house of worship in North America that is still standing.

It was replaced by a larger, long house of worship in 1782, which is regarded as the oldest standing building in California.

The oldest example of a lingam which is still used for worship is in Gudimallam.

The Quaker meetinghouse in Newport ( 1699 ) is the oldest house of worship in Rhode Island.

Newport is also home to the Newport Tower, Salve Regina University, Hammersmith Farm, Prescott Farm, and the Touro Synagogue, one of the oldest Jewish houses of worship in the Western hemisphere, as well as the Newport Public Library, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, one of the nation's oldest lending libraries.

The original focus of St Pancras was St Pancras Old Church, which is in the southern half of the parish, and is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in Great Britain.

In addition, the Temple of Kwan Tai on Albion Street, California Historical Landmark # 927, may be as old as 1854 and is one of the oldest Chinese houses of worship in California.

The Third Haven Meeting House, the oldest Quaker meetinghouse, and one of the oldest places of worship in Maryland, is in Easton.

Saint Matthew Lutheran Church, located on Hunter Street, has been broadcasting its worship service every Sunday on the radio since 1961, making it the oldest continuously running radio show in the state of Ohio.

The Newtown Square Friends Meeting House and Burying Ground is the oldest place of worship in Newtown.

There is a Religious Society of Friends ( Quaker ) Meeting House in Pennsdale that was built in 1799, and is one of the oldest buildings and perhaps the oldest house of worship in the county.

Lower Merion is home to the oldest continuously used place of worship in the United States, the Merion Friends Meeting House, used continuously since 1695.

Other houses of worship are also common, reflecting the cultural diversity existing in Australia ; the oldest Islamic structure in the southern hemisphere is the Central Adelaide Mosque ( built in the 1880s ), and one of the largest Buddhist Temples in the southern hemisphere is Wollongong's Nan Tien Temple.

The town is inhabited by one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, although the size of the community has shrunk due to emigration.

Generally regarded as Sweden's oldest town, Birka ( along with Hovgården ) has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

In 1993, the oldest known version of the text, written on bamboo tablets, was found in a tomb near the town of Guodian () in Jingmen, Hubei, and dated prior to 300 BC.

The oldest parts of the cathedral of Helsingør date back to the 13th century and tell us that the fishermen's village, as Helsingør was then, was a town of a certain importance.

At that point it was a part of Naarden, the oldest town in the Gooi area.

St Albans is Hertfordshire's oldest town, a modern city shaped by over 2000 years of continuous human occupation.

This is believed to be one of the oldest fertility rites in the UK ; revellers dance with the Oss through the streets of the town and even through the private gardens of the citizens, accompanied by accordion players and followers dressed in white with red or blue sashes who sing the traditional ' May Day ' song.

Another tourist destination is the town of Bochnia with its salt mine, Europe's oldest.

The House of the Nijmegen History is situated in a unique mediaeval chapel ' de Mariënburgkapel '; its mission is to let enjoy people of the history of the town and to be a guide for everybody who wants to visit the oldest city of the Netherlands.

The town of Bshaale, Lebanon claims to have the oldest olive trees in the world ( 4000 BC for the oldest ), but no scientific study supports these claims.

The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".

In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found ( including a 14th century structure one of Germany's oldest ), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Morse's oldest daughter, Susan Walker Morse ( 1821-1885 ), would often visit her uncle Charles Pickering Walker who owned the Hacienda Concordia in the town of Guayama.

The oldest organised indigenous group in Trinidad and Tobago is the Santa Rosa Carib Community centred in the town of Arima, although several new groups have developed in recent years.

The local electrical shop, Eric Jackson's Ltd, has been open since 1928 and is the oldest retailer in the town.

* Tønsberg, the oldest surviving town in the Nordic countries, is founded.

At Ft. Garland, Colorado south of the Great Sand Dunes on U. S. Highway 160 the Fort Garland Museum is recommended and further south on Colorado State Highway 159 at San Luis, Colorado, the oldest town in Colorado, the bronze sculptures by Huberto Maestas, depicting the Stations of the Cross.

The old town hall, built in 1610, is the oldest preserved building in the city center and now is used as a civil registry office.

The oldest ghost town in Antarctica is on Deception Island, where in 1906, a Norwegian-Chilean company set up a whaling station at Whalers Bay, which they used as a base for their factory ship, the Gobernador Bories.

Asti's Palio is the oldest recorded one in Italy, and in modern times is held in the triangular Piazza Alfieri preceded by a medieval pageant through the old town on the 3rd Sunday of September.

The University of Cambridge, established at the start of the 13th century and situated in the town of the same name, is East Anglia's most well-known institution of higher learning, and is among the oldest and most famous universities in the world.

One of the oldest buildings in the town is The Market Hall, which is situated on Hole In The Wall street, or Stryd Twll Yn Wal as it is referred to by Welsh speakers.