Çağaptay, Suna

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Cities as palimpsests?: responses to antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean u…

by Çağaptay, Suna, Fowden, Elizabeth Key, Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward P, (Edward Peter), Blanke, Louise

fromImpact of the ancient city

0 Type: Book

"The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualise cities with deep, living pasts. This volume thinks through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants …

Bilecik is a small city located in northwest Anatolia, in present-day Turkey (in the ancient region of Bithynia), on the banks of Kara Su, a tributary of the Sakarya (ancient Sangarios) River. In Byzantine times, the city was known as Belekoma/e. The Byzantine historian Pachymer…