Cool. But this only goes a thousand years back. My first name is of a King who ruled BC here, and that timelapse captures just a glimpse of what happened here (Arabs came around 7th century AD, Ottoman, Spanish and finally the French.. Which is nothing compared with what happened before 7th century. There are standing still functional buildings older than a thousand years old here (you wouldn't know they're millenial). There's even a Roman plaque in the city greeting you).

And most cities have different names (Roman, Spanish, etc..)

PS: I'm in Algiers, Algeria (Icosium).