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mods: New cities in Late Antiquity documents and archaeology Rizos, Efthymios 1981- editor. text bibliography conference publication Conference papers and proceedings. History. be 2017 2017 monographic eng fre ger print 297 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 28 cm. The foundation of new cities and towns is a particular aspect of urban history in Late Antiquity. Decades of archaeological work on sites like Iustiniana Prima, Dara, Rusafa, Androna and Zenobia provided ample material on specific cases, but we are still far from having a coherent picture of the background and impact of city foundations in Late Antiquity. Dictated by government decision or favoured by economic and demographic growth, newly-founded cities are witnesses of the realities, needs and ideals of urbanism in their own time and they provide a perspective which is quite different from the usual problems of transformation and decline of pre-existing Graeco-Roman cities. This volume, deriving from a workshop organized in Istanbul in November 2013, brings together studies by archaeologists working on sites that were founded or developed as urban centres during Late Antiquity (3rd to 7th century AD). On the base of case studies and synthetic approaches it is attempted to draw a comprehensive picture of the state of research and a theoretical discussion on the motives and characteristics of city-building and settlement development in Late Antiquity. Introduction / Efthymios Rizos -- Aspects of settlement change in late antiquity from regional survey evidence / John Bintliff -- New cities and new urban ideals, AD 250-350 / Efthymios Rizos -- Castellum-Castrum-Civitas? L'évolution fonctionnelle des nouveaux établissements de l'antiquité tardive en Pannonie et en Mésie Seconde: étude comparative / Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska -- La topographie antique d'Amida (IIIe siècle après J.-C. - VIe siècle après J.-C.) d'après les sources littéraires / Martine Assénat et Antoine Pérez -- Palmyra and its ramparts during the …