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A medieval city within Assyrian walls: the continuity of the town of Arbil in Northern Mesopotamia

SYSNO ASEP	0421473
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	A medieval city within Assyrian walls: the continuity of the town of Arbil in Northern Mesopotamia
Author(s)	Nováček, K. (CZ) Amin, A.M. (IQ) Melčák, Miroslav (OU-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Number of authors	3
Source Title	Iraq. - : Cambridge University Press - ISSN 0021-0889 Roč. 75, autumn (2013), s. 1-42
Number of pages	42 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	medieval Arbil ; North Mesopotamia ; topography ; remote sensing ; archeology
Subject RIV	AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
Institutional support	OU-W - RVO:68378009
Annotation	This study presents a first attempt at an archaeological topography of the city of Arbīl (Arbela, Urbilum, Arbail). Arbīl’s large tell and citadel are among the most famous sites in northern Iraq, although research on the site has begun only recently. The study of the immediate hinterlands of the tell, complementary use of written sources, remote sensing and surveys offer a perspective on the extremely long-term evolution of the lower town, whose architectural remains have entirely disappeared under modern building development. Despite many lacunae in the data and a predominance of indirect hypotheses, the urban structure of Assyrian Arbail becomes comprehensible in the context of other Assyrian royal capitals. During the Islamic period, the city underwent a transformation, which merged the once prosperous Sasanian provincial capital with the expanding Muslim community.
Workplace	Oriental Institute
Contact	Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950
Year of Publishing	2014

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