Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine ... - 9781108457224

Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine AnatoliaEuchata-Avkat-Beyz and its Environment\nAuthor(s): John Haldon, Hugh Elton, James Newhard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108457224, 978-1108457224\nSynopsis\nThe site of medieval Euchata, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'). Unlike most excavated or surveyed urban centres of the Byzantine period, Euchata was never a major metropolis, cultural centre or extensive urban site, although it had a military function from the seventh to ninth centuries. Its significance lies precisely in the fact that as a small provincial town, something of a backwater, it was probably more typical of the 'average' provincial Anatolian urban settlement, yet almost nothing is known about such sites. This volume represents the results of a collaborative project that in.