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Amida/Diyarbakir's North Wall
A limited snapshot of some of Diyarbakir's northern range of defences. Images primarily of one tower and it's interior. The northern portion of the city walls has seen far more deliberate destruction to facilitate the building of roads wide enough for the modern city.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Late Antique, Medieval, Roman, Turkey
Views of the decumanus at Palmyra
These images show the main colonnaded street, the decumanus, at Palmyra from a variety of different angles.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Archaeology, Architecture, Decumanus, Palmyra, Roman, Syria, Tadmor
Ancyra Castle/Ankara Kale
The very large defences of Ankara incorporate many architectural pieces (spolia) taken from the remains of the ancient city. Ancyra, as it was known in Roman times, was a very important city in central Anatolia and as a result was embellished with many fine and impressive buildings. In late antiquity, the city and empire became increasingly under threat and the Castle/Kale was built much to the same plan as we see today. The need to build the defences quickly and cheaply led to the looting of nearby buildings for their stone, hence the unusual mixture of stonework readily visible in the walls.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Citadel, Fortifications, Medieval, Roman, Spolia, Turkey
Palmyra Agora
The agora of Palmyra was located to the south of the tetrapylon and dates to the late C2nd.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Agora, Archaeology, Architecture, C2nd, Palmyra, Roman, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Tadmor
View the funerary temple besides Diocletian's Camp at the western gate of Palmyra
This temple marks the end of the decumanus and is besides the C3rd area of the city known as 'Diocletian's Camp at the western end of the settlement.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Archaeology, Architecture, C3rd, Decumanus, Diocletian, Palmyra, Roman, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Tadmor, Temple
Palmyra Tetrapylon
The Tetrapylon that stands today was reconstructed by the DGAM in the 1960s. The original structure was built in the C3rd in the reign of Diocletian. It is a measure of the wealth of the city at this time that the granite columns were imported from Egypt. The structure marks the crossroads where the axis of the main thoroughfare turns to a more acute northern angle.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Archaeology, Architecture, C3rd, Diocletian, Palmyra, Roman, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Tadmor, Tetrapylon
Palmyra Theatre
The theatre in Palmyra.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Archaeology, Architecture, Palmyra, Roman, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Tadmor, Theatre
View of Palmyra looking west towards Qalat Ibn Maan
These pictures were taken from in front of the Temple of Bel looking west towards Qalat Ibn Maan.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Archaeology, Architecture, Palmyra, Qalat Ibn Maan, Roman, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Tadmor
Theodosiopolis/Erzurum Citadel 
Due to the city's strategic importance and violent past the citadel of Erzurum has been rebuilt and repaired many times. However the citadel these days is little more than a shell with practically no interior buildings remaining.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Anastasius, Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Late Antique, Medieval, Ottoman, Roman, Theodosius II, Turkey
Rhizon/Rize City Wall
Remains of the western city walls that ran down to the sea from the citadel/kale. Much like the citadel, some sections have been very heavily restored. Other sections seem to have been completely abandoned to the elements.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Greek, Late Antique, Medieval, Roman, Turkey