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Medieval rural settlements in the Syrian coastal region : (12th and 13th Centuries)

Title

Medieval rural settlements in the Syrian coastal region : (12th and 13th Centuries) / Balázs Major.

Author

Major, Balázs

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2015]
©2015

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Description

xviii, 281 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

"This book is the result of more than a dozen years of research in the field of the hitherto unstudied medieval settlement pattern of the Syrian coastal region in the 12th and 13th centuries. The conclusions presented in this work were reached with the combined use of several source types including medieval documents, travellers' accounts, former research, map evidence, toponymy, archive and satellite photographs, oral sources and extensive archaeological field surveys accompanied by documentation between the years 2000 and 2015. After enumerating the historical events that influenced the settlement pattern of the coast, its centres, including the towns and castles (with special regard to the smaller fortifications of the countryside that seem to have been a Frankish introduction to the area) are analysed. Following the detailed examination of the written sources and the architectural material preserved at these lesser sites, a closer look at the villages and their environment aims to draw a general picture on the density of settlements and their basic characteristics. The book also discusses communication lines and provides an assessment of the medieval population that inhabited the region in the 12th and 13th centuries. The text is accompanied by a collection of maps, plan drawings, tables and illustrations on a selected number of sites visited during the field surveys."--

Series Statement

Archaeolingua. Archaeolingua Central European archaeological heritage series ; 9
Archaeopress archaeology

Uniform Title

Archaeolingua. Central European archaeological heritage series ; 9.
Archaeopress archaeology

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and indexes.

ISBN

9781784912048
1784912042
9781784912055 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

99969737569

OCLC

ocn948839701
SCSB-9663475

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library