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Ancient Abydus was a city of Troad that due to its strategic position played an important role in the history of the area until Late Antiquity. It was a wealthy city, especially during the Classical Period. |
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Academy of Cydoniae, Ayvalık |
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One of the foremost educational centres of the Greek-Orthodox of Asia Minor, an intellectual beacon whose radiance surpassed its strict geographical confines. Some of the most eminent scholars of the time, promoters of the intellectual movement of the Modern Greek Enlightenment, taught there. |
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Ada was the daughter of Hecatomnus and the sister and wife of Idrieus. In 344/343 BC she succeeded her husband in the satrapy of Caria. A few years later, in 341/340 BC, she was overthrown by her brother, Pixodarus, and was exiled to Alinda. When Alexander the Great invaded Caria in 334 BC, Ada surrendered Alinda and adopted him, while Alexander restored her to the satrapy of Caria. |
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Adada was an important city of Pisidia. It had a large population and flourished during the Imperial period. |
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Commercial centre in the Cilician plain. It was renamed Antioch on the Sarus in the 2nd c. BC and thrived particularly after Pompey settled Cilician pirates, who became farmers. Evidence concerning the religious life of the city and important building remains have survived. |
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L'aristocratie micrasiatique (Byzance) |
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L’aristocratie micrasiatique de l’époque médiévale s’est forgée au cours des siècles de combats contre les Arabes. Les grandes lignées trouvent leur origine chez un officier de talent qui s’est illustré dans les combats. Elle a monopolisé jusqu’au XIe siècle les plus hauts postes de l’armée, ce qui explique son enrichissement lors de l’expansion byzantine et les ambitions impériales de ses chefs. L’échec des rébellions et l’invasion turque ont ôté la base foncière de cette aristocratie. Sous... |
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