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Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East (Hardcover)
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Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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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.
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