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The Anastasian Wall (Greek: Ἀναστάσειον Τεῖχος, Anastáseion Teîchos; Turkish: Anastasius Suru) or the Long Walls of Thrace (Greek: Μακρὰ Τείχη τῆς Θράκης, Makrà Teíchē tês Thrákēs; Turkish: Uzun Duvar) or simply Long Wall / Macron Teichos (Ancient Greek: Μακρὸν τεῖχος) [1] [2] is an ancient stone and turf fortification located 64 km ...
Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, [a] is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey.It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Turkish Straits to the northwest, and the Black Sea to the north.
The history of Anatolia (often referred to in historical sources as Asia Minor) can be roughly subdivided into: Prehistory of Anatolia (up to the end of the 3rd millennium BCE), Ancient Anatolia (including Hattian, Hittite and post-Hittite periods), Classical Anatolia (including Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Roman periods), Byzantine Anatolia (later overlapping, since the 11th century, with the ...
At its outset, the Syriac Alexander Legend (otherwise known as the Neshana) records Alexander constructing a wall of iron to prevent an invasion of the Huns that would result in the plunder of peoples and countries. Alexander commanded that the gate should be constructed out of iron and bronze, for which he recruited three thousand blacksmiths ...
Cataonia (broad sense) (During Achaemenid Persian Empire it was its own country or region and not part of Cappadocia) Aravene; Cataonia / Cataonia Proper (narrow sense) Lavinianesine / Lavianesine / Laviansene; Muriane / Murianune; Cappadocian Cilicia / Mazakene (where Mazaka or Caesarea Mazaka was located; it is today's Kayseri) (Nesa was ...
The Outer Wall and the wall of the moat are visible, with a tower of the Inner Wall in the background. The double Theodosian Walls ( Greek : τεῖχος Θεοδοσιακόν , teichos Theodosiakon ), located about 2 km (1.2 miles) to the west of the old Constantinian Wall, were erected during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II ( r.
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Calibrated carbon-14 dates for Çatalhöyük, as of 2013 [1]. Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk / ˌ tʃ ɑː t ɑː l ˈ h uː j ʊ k / cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic ...