Earthquakes at Constantinople and Vicinity, A.D. 342-1454

Downey, Glanville

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“…Of the many earthquake catalogues available for the Eastern Mediterranean region, there are few exclusively devoted to the area of Istanbul. These are Georgiadis (19041, Duck (1904), Antoniadis (1907), Downey (1955), Grumel (1958), Cezar (1963) and Wirth (1966). Georgiadis' work covers the period up to 1821 and is based almost exdusively on Greek sources.…”

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Long‐term seismicity of Istanbul and of the Marmara Sea region

1991

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Özet Bu araştırma, içerdiği özgün mekansal örüntüler çerçevesinde, yüzyıllardır canlılığını yitirmeyen bir ticaret merkezi olan, İstanbul Hanlar Bölgesi'nde yapılmıştır. Han yapıları 15. yüzyılda ticaretin artması ile ortaya çıkmıştır. Yaygın işleviyle dönemsel konaklama yapısı olan kervansaraylardan farklı olarak Osmanlı döneminde büyük kentlerde, bir yandan konaklama diğer yandan yapım ve üretim işlerine sahip "şehir içi hanları" ortaya çıkmıştır. (Benli, 2007 sf.10) Liman kenti olan İstanbul Suriçi adı verilen Tarihi Yarımada bölgesinde yoğun olarak han yapılarının yapıldığı görülür. Bu bölgeye Hanlar Bölgesi adı verilmiştir. Çalışmada, mekansal oluşum, ticaret gibi çekici fırsatlar ve arazi eğimi gibi topolojik etkileri açıklayan Mekan Dizimi (Space Syntax) yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Yaya hareketliliği ve kent ızgarası arasındaki ilişkileri anlamada açıklayıcı bir metot olan bu yöntemle bölgedeki mevcut yaya hareketliliği tespit edilmiş, fizik mekan ve doğal çevrenin hareketliliğe etkilerini belirlemek amacıyla bir dizi değişkenle karşılıklı olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Kültür, mekan, coğrafya gibi yerleşimleri özgün kılan olguların belirleyici etken olduğu bu yöntemde, geleneksel çevrelerdeki davranış şekilleri örnek olarak alınır. Geleneksel yerleşmeler fiziksel kurgu açısından başarılı birer ara yüzdürler. Analizlerin başarısı hangi katmanlarda nelerin doğru veya yanlış olduğunu açıklar. Bu bağlamda çalışmanın amacı, geleneksel ticaret bölgesindeki yaya hareketliliğine bağlı olarak, mekanın insanları hangi noktalarda bir araya getirdiğini, bu mekanları çevreleyen yapıların ve topolojik özelliklerin parametrelerini anlamaya ve anlamlandırmaya çalışmak olacaktır. Abstract This research was carried out in Istanbul Inns Region, a trade center that has not lost its vitality for centuries, in the context of its original spatial patterns. Inn structures emerged with the increase of trade in the 15th. Century. Unlike caravansaries, which have a periodic structure of accommodation, they have "City Inns" in the big cities during the Ottoman period, with accommodation on one hand and manufacturing and production on the other. (Benli, 2007, pg.10) It is known that the Inn buildings were made intensely in the historical peninsula area called Istanbul inner walls, which is the port city. This region is called Inns Region. In this research, the Space Syntax method has been used, which explains topological effects such as land slope, spatial formation, attractive opportunities such as trade. With this method, which is an explanatory one of understanding the relationship between pedestrian mobility and the urban grid, the existing pedestrian mobility system in the region has been determined to define the spatial and natural cycle effects on mobility what have been assessed methodologically with a number of variables. In this method, original fragments, of behavioural patterns in traditional environments are taken as an example where settlements such as culture, space, and geography are the determining factors. Traditional set...

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Long‐term seismicity of Istanbul and of the Marmara Sea region

1991

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“…Instead it may simply describe coastal uplift caused by the quake (Ambraseys, 2002a). It could be that this was a period in which records of tsunami were not so well maintained; however, given that earthquakes in AD 580, 583, 611, 740, 780, and 790 were all recorded in detail (Downey, 1955;Ambraseys, 2002b), this seems unlikely.…”

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“…This dating evidence has interesting implications because although the written records indicate a proliferation of possible tsunami from AD 358e557 (Downey, 1955;Papazachos and Papazachou, 1997;Ambraseys, 2002a), records after AD 557 indicate several hundred years without any such events. The one possible exception is AD 740 (Papadopoulos and Chalkis, 1984;Yalçıner et al, 2002), where a lowering of sea level is noted, but we can find no mention in the literature of tsunami inundation associated with this.…”

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Dendroarchaeology of the mid-first millennium AD in Constantinople

Pearson

Griggs

Kuniholm

et al. 2012

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…At the very least, they would have been heard in the area around the church, where they "could gather in the out-of-doors Mediterranean social life," to quote Downey again. 24 Thus like the stones that composed its decoration, so its visitors came from all over the empire and beyond.…”

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The Sound of a Thousand Tongues: Visitors to Constantinople from the Eastern Provinces in the Sixth Century

Papaconstantinou¹

2020

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Pending their return to Egypt, we can imagine Apollos the monk and Victor the priest as country bumpkins gawking around in the Byzantine capital, attending Mass at the recently rebuilt Hagia Sophia, strolling down "Main Street," the Mesê, and catching the panoramic view of the city from the top of column of Arcadius, much like the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta centuries later, but without need for an interpreter; and we can imagine (before this) the impression made on them by the capital's skyline as they sailed toward it through the Sea of Marmora for the first time, "a view [to quote Glanville Downey] never to be forgotten." 1 This is how the papyrologist James Keenan imagined the long stay in Constantinople of two inhabitants of the Middle-Egyptian village of Aphrodito who had brought to Constantinople a case for the imperial tribunal. On January 7, 541, when they contracted a loan of twenty gold coins, 2 they must have been in the capital for several months already, waiting for their case to be judged. Keenan's passage raises several questions on which to reflect. Such long stays were the norm for those coming to the capital on business, especially of a judicial nature, as the imperial tribunal was overbooked. 3 From the village of Aphrodito alone, we have evidence of this trip by Apollos and his nephew Victor, followed in 548/549 and 551 by two trips by his son, the better-known Dioskoros, who was also accompanied by several others. 4 Probably a little earlier, a certain Diogenes, from the Middle-Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchos, found himself in Constantinople, where he seems to have spent quite some time, and borrowed large sums of money from another Egyptian, who represented a monastery in the vicinity of Oxyrhynchos and happened to be in the capital, as well. Diogenes also borrowed money from Flavius Strategios, the father of the future consul Apion, who was also from Oxyrhynchos but a resident of Constantinople. 5 In the 570s, another Oxyrhynchite, Flavia Christodote, threatens to go to the capital and obtain justice in a dispute involving a considerable sum of money.

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Earthquakes at Constantinople and Vicinity, A.D. 342-1454

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Long‐term seismicity of Istanbul and of the Marmara Sea region

Long‐term seismicity of Istanbul and of the Marmara Sea region

Dendroarchaeology of the mid-first millennium AD in Constantinople

The Sound of a Thousand Tongues: Visitors to Constantinople from the Eastern Provinces in the Sixth Century

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