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Discovering Rome's Eastern Frontier - On Foot Through a Vanished World (Hardcover)
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Discovering Rome's Eastern Frontier - On Foot Through a Vanished World (Hardcover)
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The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire extended from northern
Syria to the western Caucasus, across a remote and desolate region
800 miles from the Aegean. It followed the great Euphrates valley
to penetrate the harsh mountains of Armenia Minor and south of the
Black Sea, along the Pontic coast to the finally reach the
foothills of the Caucasus. Though vast, this terrain has long
remained one of the great gaps in our knowledge of the ancient
world, barely visited and effectively unknown - until now. Here,
Timothy Bruce Mitford offers an account of half a century of
research and exploration over sensitive territory, in challenging
conditions, to discover the material remains of Rome's last
unexplored frontier. The geographical framework introduces frontier
installations as they occur: fortresses and forts, roads, bridges,
signalling stations, and navigation of the Euphrates. The journey
is enriched with observations of consuls and travellers, memories
of Turkish and Kurdish villagers, and notes and photographs of a
way of life little changed since antiquity. The process of
discovery was mainly on foot; staying in villages with local
guides, following ancient tracks, and conversing with great numbers
of people - provincial and district governors, village elders and
teachers, police and jandarma, farmers and shepherds, and everyone
in between. This came with its perils and pleasures; encounters
with treasure hunters and apparent bandits, tales of saints and
caravans, arrests and death threats, bears and wild boars, rafts
and fishing, earthquakes, all amid the tumultuous events of the
second half of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with
large-scale maps, photographs, and sketches, this is an account of
travel and discovery, set against a background of a disappearing
world encountered in the long process of academic exploration.
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