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René Dussaud's Historical Topography of Ancient and Medieval Syria, published in 1927 and long out of print, is still considered a reference work, and as René Dussaud's best contribution to archaeological and historical studies on Syria. All researchers who have studied the ancient history of Syria have necessarily resorted to this classic, still serving as a reference to identify the toponyms of Syria and Lebanon. The study is based on the use of more than 300 sources, relying in particular on the reference works in geography available at the time of the writing of the book. For each region, from Phenicia to Palmyrene, the author gives an extremely erudite description by identifying each toponym found in ancient and medieval sources and placed in a historical context: it is therefore indeed a true historical topography.

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Syria --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Syrie antique --- Syrie médiévale --- topographie historique --- Antiquité orientale

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This work is an attempt to apply the serial method to the study of the countryside in Roman and Byzantine times, in a region of northern Syria: the Limestone Massif, where very large numbers of remains and in excellent state of conservation of ancient villages and their parcels. In this region forty-six villages were selected as a sample. They are divided into three groups, where they form complete sets, in the ğebels Simā'n, Bārīšā, Il A'la and Zāwiye. They total 4,700 rooms reserved for men's homes and as many intended for economic functions, ie a population which must have peaked at around 20,000 inhabitants. Beyond the permanence of the agrarian landscapes and the main characteristics of the economy and society, this region experienced two major phases of expansion, one until the middle of the third century, the other from 330 to 550.The second phase, the best known, is marked by a considerable increase in the number of men and by an economic progress which has taken on an extensive form, enlargement of the land, then intensive, diversification of production with a view to sale. All in all, this population grew, while growing richer, in a context of urban expansion, which proves that the wealth of the cities and that of the countryside, far from being mutually exclusive, were complementary. In the middle of the sixth century, the gap widened between the number of men, which still tended to increase, and resources which levelled off, resulting in a long period of economic stagnation and impoverishment marked, in the short term, by severe subsistence crises and epidemics. Construction activity stops but the villages remain densely populated. The Islamic conquest does not entail any major consequences in the material life of the peasants. Their abandonment will not begin until the beginning of the 8th century, with the decline of the Umayyad Caliphate.

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Entre la conquête du Proche‑Orient par Rome au premier siècle avant Jésus‑Christ et la fermeture des temples au quatrième siècle de l’ère chrétienne, les montagnes du Liban se couvrent de nombreux sanctuaires païens. Ces lieux de culte entre ciel et terre ont attiré l’attention des voyageurs et des savants depuis l’Antiquité : « je suis aussi monté vers le Liban depuis Byblos, à une journée de marche, après avoir appris qu’il se trouvait là un ancien temple d’Aphrodite », peut‑on lire dans le De Dea Syria, traité rédigé en grec à l’époque romaine, qui relate une visite au célèbre site d’Afqa, à la source du fleuve Adonis. Julien Aliquot invite le lecteur à découvrir à son tour les cultes et les sanctuaires libanais en tirant parti d’une documentation renouvelée par les travaux archéologiques et épigraphiques les plus récents. Son enquête constitue la première étude d’ensemble sur la vie religieuse au Liban sous l’Empire romain. Au croisement de l’histoire et de l’archéologie, elle est complétée du catalogue des cent vingt lieux de culte de la région. L’ouvrage se place dans la perspective de l’histoire des religions et des sociétés du monde romain. Il contribue aux recherches sur l’hellénisation et la romanisation du Proche‑Orient. Between the conquest of the Near East by Rome in the first century before Jesus Christ and the closure of the temples in the fourth century of the Christian era, many pagan sanctuaries covered the mountains of Lebanon. These places of worship suspended between sky and earth have drawn the attention of the travellers and scholars since Antiquity: “I also went up from Byblos into Lebanon, a day’s journey, having learnt that there was an ancient sanctuary of Aphrodite there,” as one can read in the De Dea Syria, a treatise written in Greek in the Roman period, which tells a visit to the famous site of Afqa, at the spring of the river Adonis. Julien Aliquot invites the reader to discover in his turn the Lebanese cults and sanctuaries by…

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Shrines --- Sanctuaires --- Lebanon --- Rome --- Liban --- Church history --- Religious life and customs --- History --- Histoire religieuse --- Vie religieuse --- Histoire --- Church history. --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Religion. --- Social life and customs. --- République libanaise --- Libanon --- Lubnān --- Libanan --- Livan --- Mont-Liban (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) --- Jabal Lubnān (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) --- Levanon --- Líbano --- Livanos --- Grand Lebanon --- Grand Liban --- Lebanese Republic --- Jumhūrīyah al Lubnānīyah --- Jumhouriya al-Lubnaniya --- Republic of Lebanon --- لبنان --- جمهورية اللبنانية --- Ліван --- Ліванская Рэспубліка --- Livanskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Ливан --- Република Ливан --- Republika Livan --- Λίβανος --- Δημοκρατία του Λιβάνου --- Dēmokratia tou Livanou --- Jumhūrīyyah al-Lubnānīyyah --- 레바논 --- לבנון --- רפובליקה הלבנונית --- Republiḳah ha-Levanonit --- Либан --- Либанска Република --- Libanska Republika --- レバノン --- Rebanon --- レバノン共和国 --- Rebanon Kyōwakoku --- Ливанская Республика --- Республіка Ліван --- Respublika Livan --- Ліванська Республика --- Livansʹka Respublyka --- Levonen --- 黎巴嫩 --- Libanen --- Romans --- Cult --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- littérature grecque et latine --- hellénisation --- sociétés rurales --- épigraphie grecque et latine --- archéologie --- Empire romain --- Syrie antique --- histoire religieuse --- paganisme antique --- romanisation --- village --- architecture