Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia: Seljuk Gardens and Pavilions of Alanya, TurkeyThis study, focusing on the Rum Seljuk dynasty in thirteenth-century Anatolia, combines local history, geography, art history, and archaeology to examine instances of an only partially understood garden tradition in one corner of the medieval Mediterranean. Gardens, and their architecture, have been neglected, not only because of the paucity of remains, the architecture they inspired was not monumental and relied strongly on a sense of place, and a sensitivity to the landscape. This book attempts to recover a measure of that sense and that landscape, as well as the activities that endowed them with meaning for those that enjoyed them. |
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Byzantine Settlement at Alanya | 13 |
Rough Cilicia and Comnenian Military Strategy | 20 |
Suburban Gardens and Pavilions around Alanya | 30 |
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agricultural Alaeddin Keykubad Alanya castle Alanya Museum Alara Anatolia Ankara Antalya ARCHITECT architectural Arık Armenian Cilicia Aspendos Basımevi bathhouse Belleten built Buzağı Avlusu Byzantine caravansarays cistern citadel coast construction court Crusader culture Cyprus decoration Dergisi Dim Çayı dynasty east ELEVATION elite emirs enclosure wall entrance evidence Evliya Çelebi excavations facade floodplain fortifications Gazipaşa Gülefsen Hacı Baba Hasbahçe Hellenistic hunting Ibn Bibi Ibn Bibi-Duda Illustration inscriptions interior irrigation Islamic İzzeddin Keykavus Kaledran Katip Çelebi Kayseri Keykubadiye Konya Konyalı KÖŞKÜ Kubadabad land landscape located lower story medieval Mediterranean mentioned meters Oktay Aslanapa painted paleosol Persian region remains river Roman rubble Rūm Rum Seljuk SECTION Şekerbane Gazipaşa Selinus Seljuk buildings Seljuk dynasty Seljuk garden Seljuk pavilions Seljuk sultan settlement soil spring structure Sugözü ŞUKRAN TOKSOY sultan Taurus Mountains terraces thirteenth century tiles tion town Türkmen upper story valley vaulted zigzag