Though there's a fair amount of disagreement among scholars of city population at various points in history Tertius Chandler's Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census is the reference text on this. The position for biggest city has shifted around a fair bit but some of those who've repeatedly topped the list include Memphis, Beijing, Babylon, Thebes, Constantinople and Hangzhou.

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