The valley of Islahiye: Historical landscapes in a natural corridor in South-Eastern Turkey

The valley of Islahiye: Historical landscapes in a natural corridor in South-Eastern Turkey

The valley of Islahiye follows a North-South fault line between two mountain ranges, the Amanus to the West and the Kurt Dağ to the East and it connects south-eastern Anatolia with northern Syria and – in spots – the plateau West of the Euphrates with Cilicia. Its central area (i.e. its sections of the Islahiye and Nurdağı administrative districts within Gaziantep province) has been studied in some detail during recent years and this web project accounts for those preliminary results. The many mounds of the valley, of which a dozen or so have been excavated or at least probed, and the many newly retrieved sites and monuments in the last decade should be studied on the ground in the next future systematically, also in order to connect them to the results produced by neighboring projects such as the AVRP and create the necessary documentation base of the territorial continuum in view of the detailed understanding of the urbanization processes of the Northern Levant, increasingly made possible through tools such as the CRANE project.

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