Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities A Study of Mersin, Turkey—From Antiquity to Modernity
This book surveys the historical development, current problems and likely prospects for Eastern Mediterranean port cities, providing contributions from scholars from various disciplines, such as archaeologists, historians, economists, urban planners and architects. By studying the city of Mersin and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2019, 2019
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019 |
| Series: | The Urban Book Series
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Mediterranean Idea: From the Roman Mare Nostrum to the Book of the Sea by Naḥum Slouschz (1948)
- Mediterranean as a Supra-Regional Interaction Sphere during Late Prehistory An Overview on Problems and Prospects
- Settlements in the Hellenistic Period in Cilicia
- Anthroscapes: A Robust Basis for Mapping Land Quality and Sustainable Land Use Patterns
- Visible / Invisible: Sanctity, History and Topography in Tarsus
- Maronites in Mersin Through its Process of Becoming an Important Port City (The 19th and the 20th Century)
- The Greek-Orthodox Community of Mersin (mid-19th century to 1921)
- Where Have All the Egyptian Fellahin Gone? Labor in Mersin and Çukurova (Second Half of the 19th Century)
- Why did the German Levantine Cotton Company Settle in Cilicia?
- The Port of Mersin from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
- Entrepreneurial Spirit and Modernization of a Port City: The Case of Mersin
- Adana-Mersin Railway Station Buildings:v A Cross-sectionof the 19th Century Ottoman Architecture
- Changes to urban form in Eastern Mediterranean port cities: Formation and transformation of the Çamlıbel neighborhood in Mersin
- The Denizens’ Turn