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Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (800 BCE
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Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (800 BCE
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The Anatolian peninsula (also called Asia Minor), comprising most of modern Turkey, is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions in the world due to its location at the intersection of Asia and Europe. Western Anatolia fell to Alexander the Great in 334 BCE. Anatolia was subsequently divided into a number of small Hellenistic kingdoms, all of which had succumbed to Rome by the mid-1st century BCE. In 324 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine I chose Byzantium to be the new capital of the Roman Empire, renaming it Constantinople (now Istanbul). After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it became the capital of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. - Wikipedia | |
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Roman Water Systems in South-central Turkey, by Roger D. Hansen, WaterHistory.org |
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Reconstructions of the famous Roman baths of Zeuxippos in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) |
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Row of toilets in Ephesus, Turkey, from 1st Century CE. Photo date 1998. Source: Steve Harding, Pima County Wastewater Management Department, Tucson, Arizona. |
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Toilets in Ephesus, Turkey. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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Roman baths in Ephesus, Turkey. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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Roman baths in Ephesus, Turkey. The raised flooring here in the Roman baths required several huge furnaces for heating. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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Roman bath furnaces in Ephesus, Turkey. These furnaces heated the raised flooring in the Roman baths. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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Baths in Aphrodisias, Turkey. Part of the Baths of Hadrian. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html |
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Baths in Aphrodisias, Turkey. Part of the Baths of Hadrian. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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Drains in Priene, Turkey. One of the things that made Roman civilization great was superior drains. This channel running down the street may look simple; but it's part of the secret of Roman success. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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Drain in Didyma, Turkey. Roman plumbing: a joint for distributing water into various channels. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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Baths in Phaselis, Turkey. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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The most spectacular sight in Phaselis, Turkey, is the last leg of the aqueduct which supplied the city. Photo date 2002. Source: Used with permission of Prof. Paul Brians, Department of English,
Washington State University. See http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xworldciv.html. |
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Roman baths at the ruins of Olympos, Turkey. Source: Radoslaw BotevWikimedia Commons. |
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