Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula

Volume: 2 June 1, 2014
  • E. Deniz Oğuz-kırca
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Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula

Abstract

The Bozburun Peninsula, lying in southwest Anatolia, facing the island of Rhodes, was originally acknowledged as being a part of Carian territory. It was only during the IIIrd-IInd centuries B.C. that the Classical Peninsula which was equivalent to a polis andconurba­ted through a koinon of komai, was trans­formed into a periphery, reorganized under the protectorate of Rhodes and became an incorporated-Hellenized part of the island until the Roman takeover. Although it may seem that the newly introduced constituents of the Hellenistic mainland, the demes, were the equivalents of ktoina reflecting egalitarianism and having their form within the island’s administra­tive pattern, they were possibly the later forms of the ancient territorial model formed by a long-settled and decentralized network ofCarian komai. Problems with the identification of demes and the nuclei thereof have caused long standing debates amongst scholars.This paper aims at reassessing the problem of identity in view of the natural and social territoriums, in respect to the available knowledge to date and the results of recent surveys carried out between 2009 and 2012 which encompassed the area beginning from the horizontal line between modern Deliktaş Bay and Bayır Village in the north and stretching down to the isthmus in the south.

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APA
Oğuz-kırca, E. D. (2014). Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula. Cedrus, 2, 267-289. https://doi.org/10.13113/CEDRUS.201406463
AMA
1.Oğuz-kırca ED. Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula. Cedrus. 2014;2:267-289. doi:10.13113/CEDRUS.201406463
Chicago
Oğuz-kırca, E. Deniz. 2014. “Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula”. Cedrus 2 (June): 267-89. https://doi.org/10.13113/CEDRUS.201406463.
EndNote
Oğuz-kırca ED (June 1, 2014) Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula. Cedrus 2 267–289.
IEEE
[1]E. D. Oğuz-kırca, “Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula”, Cedrus, vol. 2, pp. 267–289, June 2014, doi: 10.13113/CEDRUS.201406463.
ISNAD
Oğuz-kırca, E. Deniz. “Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula”. Cedrus 2 (June 1, 2014): 267-289. https://doi.org/10.13113/CEDRUS.201406463.
JAMA
1.Oğuz-kırca ED. Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula. Cedrus. 2014;2:267–289.
MLA
Oğuz-kırca, E. Deniz. “Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula”. Cedrus, vol. 2, June 2014, pp. 267-89, doi:10.13113/CEDRUS.201406463.
Vancouver
1.E. Deniz Oğuz-kırca. Some Thoughts on the Problem of Identification of Demes: The Ancient Bozburun Peninsula. Cedrus. 2014 Jun. 1;2:267-89. doi:10.13113/CEDRUS.201406463

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