Dynamic infography: Europe largest cities in history (until today)

Europe's Largest Cities Throughout History: Every Year. An animated map of Europe's largest cities over time, from 1600 BCE to modern times.

In video: Ancient Era, Greco-Roman World, Middle Ages, Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary Era.

According to this dataset, Acrotiri (in Skyathos or Thiera Island, Greece, supposed Atlantis/Atlantida) was first major city in Europe, the first with mor than 20k inhabitants. 

Further, video present ascension (and eventually colaps) of cities like: Knossos, Kition, Mycene, Athens, Syracuse, Corinth, Sparta, Argos, Agrigentum, Rome, Capua, Rhodes, Constantinopole, Gades, Augusta Treverorum, Salona, Narbonne  (France)and Marseilles, Cordoba, Sevilla, Merida, Toledo (Muslim Spain), Palermo, Kiev, Milan, Venice, Paris, London, Sarai (in Russia, but Golden Horde capital), Genoa, Ghent, Lisbon, Naples, Edirne (Adrianopoles), Amsterdam, Moscow, St. Petersburg/Leningrad, Vienna, Berlin, Manchester, Birmingham, Madrid, Barcelona and more. 

Lot of this cities (especially from old times) are virtually unknown today.