Eastern Turkey: An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Vol. III 0907132340, 9780907132349

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
CH. IX. THE UPPER AND LOWER EUPHRATES
Malatya
1. Eski Malatya
2. Arslantepe
3. Modern Malatya
Harput
1. The citadel and beneath
2. Great Mosque
3. Platform area
4. Position unknown
5. Elaziğ
I. The Malatya plain
(a) The Sultan Suyu
(b) The Kuru Çay valley
(c) The Arapkir road
(d) The Euphrates valley east of Malatya,
(e) Sites to be flooded by the Karakaya Dam
The west bank of the Upper Euphrates: Arapkir, Agin and Kemaliye
A. Arapkir and Ağin
B. Kemaliye and the Sançiçek Dag
Arapkir
3. The Dersim
Çemişgezek
Mazgirt
4. The Keban Dam sites, northerly half of the lake
5. The Elaziğ plain
(i) West section
(ii) The Altin Ova, unflooded sites
(iii) Site snow flooded by the lake
6. The Peri Su, the Göynük Su and the Palu and Bingöl plains
History and Background
1. The Urartian kingdom and the kingdom of Milid
2. The Classical period
3. The fourth to sixth centuries
4. The Arab occupation; the second Byzantine occupation
5. Seljuks, Danishmendids and Artukids at Malatya and Harput
6. From the Mongols to the Ottomans
Historical bibliography
CH. X. THE TIGRIS
A. DİYARBAKIR AND EĞİL
Diyarbakir
Walls
Ulu Cami (Mesudiye, Zinciriye Medresesi)
Behram Paşa Camii
Melek Ahmet Paşa Camii
1. South-west quarter
2. North-west quarter
3. East half
4. The Citadel
5. Other
6. Outside the walls
Eğil
B. MARDİN; THE SOUTH-EAST
Mardin
Sultan İsa Medresesi
Kasim Paşa Medresesi
1. Citadel
2. North-west quarter
3. South-west quarter
4. The centre
5. East end
6. Below the town
Deir Zaferan
Dara
Walls
Kiziltepe
Rabat Kalesi
C. HASANKEYF AND THE TUR ABDIN
Hasankeyf
1. The citadel
2. The lower town
3. Across the bridge
The Tur Abdin
Hah
Keferzi
Arnas
Salah
Mar Gabriel
A. The Tigris basin
1. The Taurus interior
2. The south face of the Taurus and beneath: west half
3. The Taurus and beneath, east half
(a) Dicle, Hani etc.
(b) The passage of the northern route
Dakyanus Kale
Birkleyn caves
(c) The eastern end - Antağ, Boşat, Kulp, etc.
4. The Diyarbakir basin
(a) The north-west
(b) Downstream of Diyarbakir
(i) The banks of the Tigris
(ii) The north: Silvan, etc.
5. The Batman Su to the eastern mountains
(a) The Garzan Su and Arzan
(b) The Bitlis Su district and beyond
Siirt
B. The limestone massif
1. From Karaca Dağ to the Tur Abdin
2. The Tur Abdin
(a) North of the "Koros Mountains"
(b) The central district (Midyat etc.)
(c) The western hill district (Savur, Killit etc.)
(d) Southerly hill district (Black and White Water, Enhil etc.)
(e) Eastern hill district
3. East of the Tigris
(i) The Tigris gorge and the eastbank
(ii) The hinterland of the Tigris gorge
(iii) Cudi Dağ
C. The escarpment and the plain
1. The district of Derik and Mardin
2. From Mardin to Nusaybin
3. From Nusaybin to the end of the escarpment
(i) Nusaybin
(ii) Mt. Izla
Mar Augen
Mar Yohannon
(iii) Hatem Tai Kale and Sirvan
4. Cizre and its hinterland
5. East of the Tigris
History and Background
1. Nisibis and Carcathiocerta
2. Tigranes and Tigranocerta
3. The fourth century
4. The sixth century
(i) Byzantine territory
(ii) Persian territory
Annexe: Two place-names in sixth-century history
5. The Umayyad and Abbasid occupations
6. The Artukid period
(i) The cities under the Hamdanidsand Marwanids
(ii) States of the Artukid period
(iii) The Mongol occupation
7. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
(i) Economy and settlements,
(ii) The local princes and the Turcomanconfederations
(iii) The Christian communities
8. Under the Ottomans
Historical bibliography
Addenda and Corrigenda