Bandit Highlands and Lowland Peace: the Mountains of Isauria-Cilicia
1990; Brill; Volume: 33; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/156852090x00149
ISSN1568-5209
Autores Tópico(s)Eurasian Exchange Networks
ResumoBANDIT HIGHLANDS AND LOWLAND PEACE: THE MOUNTAINS OF ISAURIA-CILICIA (continued) BY BRENT D. SHAW (Princeton) IV The Isaurian Mountains in Late Antiquity The situation found in the mountains of Isauria in late antiquity reveals deeply rooted continuities with the past. The patterns of rela- tionships between mountain and plain, between highland peoples and the lowland state remain much the same. The Diocletianic breakdown of provinces subdivided the Cilician Plain, but left moun- tainous Isauria as a single unit 104) . The geographical base for control of the mountains, however, was still a plain; the new provincial cen- tre was Seleukia
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