Deep History of Anatolia: Communities, Kingdoms, and Imperial Crossroads
Pisidian Taurus and Ağlasun valley · Profil avec revue des sources

Sagalassos and Pisidian regional communities

Sagalassos/Ağlasun

A mountain city, pottery workshops, water systems, houses, public buildings, inscriptions, cemeteries, and rural surveys document long-term urban-hinterland relationships.

Hellenistic-to-late-antique mountain-city, craft, water, household, and regional landscape context Primarily 3rd century BCE-700 CE, with earlier settlement background Urban and rural archaeology, architecture, ceramics, inscriptions, human remains, environmental study, water systems, and regional survey Sagalassos archaeological city; one Pisidian urban and regional reference, not a universal ethnic capital
Aperçu

Éléments probants, chronologie, échelle communautaire, organisation politique et connexions

Paysages, mobilité, échange, réseaux impériales et connexions régionales

Mountain water, terraces, farms, forests, clay sources, roads, and markets linked city and countryside.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Civic institutions, imperial officials, benefactors, workshops, households, farmers, migrants, dependents, and enslaved people formed changing urban-rural relationships.

Contextes impériales, religieuxs, de patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

Turkish authorities and the Sagalassos project steward the site and human remains; evidence cannot adjudicate modern identity or descent.

Research scale city and rural hinterland

The map point cannot represent every Pisidian community.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S2]
Craft evidence regional pottery production

Material distribution does not map one ethnicity.

Reviewed 2026 [S2] [S3]
Human-remains care contextual and sensitive study required

Burials cannot establish modern ancestry or identity.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S3]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Urban institutions consolidate

    Local and regional communities negotiated changing royal power.

  2. City, craft, and water systems expand

    Public construction rested on taxation, labor, patronage, and regional resources.

  3. Households and religious institutions change

    Christian and civic transformations were uneven.

  4. Earthquake and political change reshape settlement

    Contraction and relocation were multicausal, not simple population replacement.

Culture et langue

Foyers, agriculture, pastoralisme, artisanat, travail, langue, croyances et mobilité

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • Greek inscriptions
  • Latin in selected imperial contexts
  • Pisidian language evidence elsewhere in the region

Famille linguistique: Greek and Latin written evidence; Pisidian is an Anatolian Indo-European language

Urban water infrastructure

Pottery production and exchange

Integrated city and rural-landscape research

Palaces, monuments, inscriptions, temples, churches, elite tombs, and famous authors are more visible than women, children, farmers, herders, miners, craftspeople, migrants, captives, enslaved or dependent people, and rural households. Evidence gaps must not be filled with ethnic purity, nationalist continuity, foreign-builder, lost-civilization, or simple population-replacement narratives.

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  1. C1

    Türkiye World Heritage properties

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · National heritage-property register · Current record

  2. C2

    Karain Cave

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · State-submitted Palaeolithic heritage record · 1994; current record

  3. C3

    Göbekli Tepe

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International Neolithic heritage record · 2018; current record

  4. C4

    Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International settlement heritage record · 2012; current record

  5. C5

    Kültepe-Kanesh

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · State-submitted archaeological and archive heritage record · 2014; current record

  6. C6

    Hattusha: the Hittite Capital

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International Bronze Age heritage record · 1986; current record

  7. C7

    Gordion

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological landscape record · 2023; current record

  8. C8

    Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International Iron Age urban and funerary heritage record · 2025; current record

  9. C9

    Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International multi-period urban heritage record · 2014; current record

  10. C10

    Aphrodisias

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International civic and archaeological heritage record · 2017; current record

  11. C11

    İznik

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · State-submitted urban and religious heritage record · 2014; current record

  12. C12

    Anatolian Civilizations collections

    Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism · Public museum and heritage resource · Current museum resource

  13. S1

    Archaeological Site of Sagalassos

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · State-submitted archaeological heritage record · 2009; current record

  14. S2

    Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project

    KU Leuven · Accountable archaeological project · Current project resource

  15. S3

    Sagalassos archaeological site

    Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism · Public heritage resource · Current resource

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Revisión editorial: 6 août 2026