Brief Notes on The Byzantine Insular Urbanism in The Eastern Mediterranean Between Late Antiquity and The Early Middle Ages (Ca. 650 – Ca. 800 CE)

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 21 Sayı: 45, 63 - 76, 20.09.2020

Luca Zavagno

Öz

This paper aims at reassessing the concept of peripherality of the Byzantine
insular world. It is suggested that Sicily, Crete and Cyprus (and to a lesser extent
Malta, Sardinia and the Balearics) acted as a third political and economic
pole between the Anatolian plateau and the Aegean Sea in the Byzantine
Mediterranean. This will shed “archeological” light on some parallel economic
and political trajectories of the urban centers located on two of the abovementioned
islands: Salamis-Constantia on Cyprus and Gortyn in Crete during
the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Byzantium, Mediterranean, Islands, Archaeology, Medieval

Doğu Akdeniz’de Geç Antik Çağ ile Erken Orta Çağlar Arasında Bizans İzolatif Kentçiliği Üzerine Kısa Notlar (Yaklaşık 650 - Yaklaşık 800 CE)

Öz

Bu makale, Bizans İmparatorluğu Adalar Sistemi içinde periferi ve periferik
alan konseptini yeniden değerlendirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Makalede, Girit,
Sicilya ve Kıbrıs merkezde olmak üzere destekleyici diğer örnekler olarak Malta,
Sardunya ve Balear Adaları kullanılacak ve bu adaların Bizans Akdenizi’nin
kalbi olarak kabul edilen Anadolu platosu ve Ege Denizi çevresinde hem
politik hem de ekonomik açılardan üçüncü bir kutup olarak fonksiyonları
tartışılacaktır. Bu argüman Geç Antikçağ’dan Erken Ortaçağ’a geçiş döneminde
Salamis-Constantia (Kıbrıs) ve Gortyn (Girit) şehir merkezlerinin sunduğu
arkeolojik kanıtlar ve iki merkezin paralel ekonomik ve politik yörüngeleri ile
desteklenecektir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Bizans, Akdeniz, Adalar, Arkeoloji, Ortaçağ

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