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Cities and Citadels in Turkey: From the Iron Age to the Seljuks

Cities and Citadels in Turkey: From the Iron Age to the Seljuks

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Series: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement, Book 40

ArchaeologyAncient History GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern History

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ISBN10: 9042927127
ISBN13: 9789042927124
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Feb 25 2013
Pages: 356
Weight: 3.88
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.40 Depth: 12.00
Language: English
For millennia, walled citadels have served both as residences for rulersand military forces and as sacred centers embodying the power of theelite. The outcome of a symposium organized by Koç University's ResearchCenter for Anatolian Civilizations, the essays in this volume are byleading scholars on the area that is now Turkey, from the firstmillennium BC through the fourteenth century AD. They examine thephenomenon of citadels in a comparative perspective in Anatolia andneighboring regions. Archaeology, art history, and history are broughtto bear on the phenomenon of the citadel in its urban context.

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