Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East
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American Archaeological Expeditions
ancient cartography
Andrews University
Aufstieg Und Niedergang Der Romischen
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British Archaeological Reports
Broader Geographic Context
Byzantine
Cartography
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CNRS Edition
Coele Syria
DOP
Dura Europus
early Byzantine transformation
Eastern Roman Empire
epigraphic evidence
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Geography
MACADAM
MHA
Northern Jordan
Peeters Publishers
Peutinger Map
Pliny
Provincia Arabia
Ras Shamra
Romaine
Roman
Roman Arabia
Roman Military Architecture
Roman provincial studies
settlement archaeology
toponymy research
urbanisation in Roman Syria and Arabia
USA
Yoram Tsafrir
Zenon Archive
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- ISBN 9781138740563
- Weight: 870g
- Dimensions: 150 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This title was first published in 2002: This volume focuses on the Roman provinces of Syria and Arabia, above all the lands now within Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The first articles look at questions of geography, cartography and toponymy, particularly in Strabo, Pliny and Ptolemy. The following sections are concerned with settlement patterns and urban development in the region. In the Roman and early Byzantine periods, the inland areas underwent a gradual transformation, from a semi-sedentary, lightly populated and predominantly rural region, to one of large cities and a network of prosperous, socially sophisticated villages, linked by a network of roads. That change is documented by a wealth of epigraphy from both the urban communities and their outlying settlements (the subject of several articles). By the 4th century, too, Christianity had become the dominant religion and remained such until the arrival of Islam.
