TY  - BOOK
AU  - Niewöhner,Philipp
ED  - Oxford scholarship - EBA
TI  - The archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia: from the end of late antiquity until the coming of the Turks 
SN  - 9780190610487 (ebook) :
AV  - DR431 .A693 2017
U1  - 956.1013 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Material culture
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Byzantine antiquities
KW  - To 1453
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - 527-1081
KW  - 1081-1453
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2017; Includes bibliographical references; Specialized
N2  - Anatolia was the only major part of the Roman Empire that did not fall in late antiquity, but remained continuously under Roman rule through the eleventh century. Anatolia can, therefore, show the difference Roman administration continued to make, once pan-Mediterranean rule had collapsed. Urban decline did not set in before the fifth century, after Anatolia had already been thoroughly Christianized in the course of the fourth century. The urban decline, when it occurred from the fifth century onwards, was paired with rural prosperity, an increase in the number, size, and quality of rural settlements and in rural population. This work examines this topic
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