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Surroundings:

Daras. Remains of the structures of water supply systemwater supply sytemRock-cut tombs in DaraDara BridgeAnastasiopolisRuins of rock-cut building in DaraAmbar. Fortified church.Korde

Location:

  • Türkiye, Oğuz
  • geo:37.182419,40.95385
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • 300 / unknown

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26408

Annotations

Dara a significant place in Upper Mesopotamia was named after Darius I, an original Persian “Darayavaush” meaning the “king”. Dara was coquered by Alexander the Greate and became a dominion of the Seleucids.  Later Dara was under Romans, the Parthians, the Byzantines, the Sassanids control.

http://www.thesis.bilkent.edu.tr/0006632.pdf

https://www.academia.edu/34935876/The_Urban_Ideal_and_Urban_Planning_in_Bizantine_New_Cities_of_the_Sixth_Century_A.D._in_Theory_and_Practice_in_Late_Antique_Archaeology_Leiden_2003_pp._196-223

Sources:

  1. Zacharias of Mytilene, Syriac Chronicle, Book VII, Chapter VI
  2. Procopius, De Aedificiis, Book II
  3. Brian Croke, James Crow: Procopius and Dara, in: Journal of Roman Studies 73 (1983), pp. 143–159.
  4. Mehmet Kemal Dedeman, Araştıma ve Geliştirme Proje Yarışması 2004, p. 86
  5. talo Furlan, Accertamenti a Dara, Padua 1984

Nearby

Dara dam

Dara dam


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