The Maeander Valley

Author : Peter Thonemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499354

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The Maeander Valley by Peter Thonemann Pdf

This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann reveals the complex and fascinating interplay between the natural environment and human activities in the Maeander valley. Both a large-scale regional history and a profound meditation on the role played by geography in human history, this book is an essential contribution to the history of the Eastern Mediterranean in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages.

Author : Peter Thonemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Büyük Menderes River Valley (Turkey)
ISBN : 1139128345

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The Maeander Valley by Peter Thonemann Pdf

"Cratylus used to criticise Heraclitus for saying that it was impossible to step into the same river twice. He thought that it was impossible to step into the same river once.1 The fall of tralles, AD 1284 In the spring of the year AD 1280, the young future emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus led an army south from Constantinople into Asia Minor. Twenty years of Palaeologan rule had not been kind to the old Byzantine heartlands. After the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins in 1261, the emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus had kept his attention firmly trained on the European west. The Anatolian borderlands, the fertile coastal valleys of the Hermos, Cayster and Maeander, had largely been abandoned to their fate at the hands of the nascent Turkish warrior beyliks. Only at the very end of his life, between 1280 and 1282, did Michael make any concerted attempt to restore Byzantine authority in western Asia Minor, and by then, as would rapidly become apparent, it was far too late.2 Arriving in the valley of the river Maeander, and travelling eastwards along the north bank of the river, Andronicus passed the ruins of the ancient city of Tralles. Struck by the charms of the place, and the natural defensibility of the plateau on which the city stood, Andronicus decided to restore the ruined town as a place of refuge for the local Greek rural population (Fig. 1.1)."--

Author : Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814683248

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St. Paul's Ephesus by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor Pdf

In this new volume, renowned scholar Jerome Murphy-O'Connor does for Ephesus what he did for Corinth in his award-winning St. Paul's Corinth. He combs the works of twenty-six ancient authors for information about ancient Ephesus, from its beginnings to the end of the biblical era. Readers can now picture for themselves this second of the two major centers of Paul's missionary work, with its houses, shops, and monuments, and above al the world-renowned temple of Artemis. After presenting the textual and archaeological evidence, Murphy-O'Connor leads the reader on a walk through St. Paul's Ephesus and describes the history of Paul's years in the city. Although Ephesus has been a ruin for many hundreds of years, readers of this book will find themselves transported back to the days of its flourishing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Meander (Tas.)
ISBN : 0646046845

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Meander Valley Memories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bishops
ISBN : PRNC:32101075685899

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The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia: pt. I. The Lycos Valley and south-western Phrygia by Sir William Mitchell Ramsay Pdf

Author : Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Turkey
ISBN : PRNC:32101064457615

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The Historical Geography of Asia Minor by Sir William Mitchell Ramsay Pdf

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Algeria
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUUDS

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Supplementary Papers by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11545247

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Supplementary papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00090192

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The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia by Ramsay Pdf

Author : Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bishops
ISBN : BSB:BSB11612538

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The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia by Sir William Mitchell Ramsay Pdf

Author : Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bishops
ISBN : UCD:31175003554246

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The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia: pt. II. West and west-central Phrygia by Sir William Mitchell Ramsay Pdf

Author : Francesco D’Andria,Celal Şimşek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443892292

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Landscape and History in the Lykos Valley by Francesco D’Andria,Celal Şimşek Pdf

This book explores archaeological excavations and investigations into the history of the Lykos valley, Turkey. The contributions discuss the latest discoveries at the Ploutonion of Hierapolis; the excavations of the tabernae in Tripolis; the Lykos Valley in prehistory and the second millennium BC; the origins of the marble used in Hierapolis; and archaeo-botanic studies in Hierapolis, among others. Taken together, all the articles gathered here reveal the strong connections between the cities of the valley.

Author : Brian Campbell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807869048

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Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell Pdf

Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding landscape on the society and culture of the Roman Empire. Examining artistic representations of rivers, related architecture, and the work of ancient geographers and topographers, as well as writers who describe rivers, Campbell reveals how Romans defined the geographical areas they conquered and how geography and natural surroundings related to their society and activities. In addition, he illuminates the prominence and value of rivers in the control and expansion of the Roman Empire--through the legal regulation of riverine activities, the exploitation of rivers in military tactics, and the use of rivers as routes of communication and movement. Campbell shows how a technological understanding of--and even mastery over--the forces of the river helped Rome rise to its central place in the ancient world.

Author : Clive Foss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521220866

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Ephesus After Antiquity by Clive Foss Pdf

Professor Foss charts the fluctuations of Ephesus from the tenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Author : Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Turkey
ISBN : UGA:32108001049124

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A Handbook of Asia Minor: Western Asia Minor. September, 1919 by Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division Pdf