Urban development of the city of Assos from its beginnings to Roman times

• Applicant: Professor Dr.-Ing. Klaus Rheidt
• Subject Area: Classical, Roman, Christian and Islamic Archaeology ; Architecture, Building and Construction History, Construction Research, Sustainable Building Technology
• Term: from 2010 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 174282405

Assos offers good conditions for a comprehensive investigation of its urban development due to the continuous history of settlement to the Middle Ages and the only small modern building density, as well as an extremely good degree of preservation of the ruins. The aim of the project is to describe the urban development of Assos in its essential historical phases of urban change and thus to introduce the city as a yet largely unnoticed, but particularly fruitful case study in the current scientific discussion on urban development in western Asia Minor and the Aegean. The preliminary results of research on the city walls and the building structures on the Acropolis and of the intra-urban City Survey from the first phase of the project allow understanding the development of the settlement from its historical founding in the 7th Century B.C. to Roman times, as well as the associated political transformation and its related architecture and construction. The second phase of the project serves to verify, substantiate and discuss the new results and theories of the urban development of Assos in the context of current research on ancient urbanistics by archaeological stratigraphic excavations. As a final result of the Assos research project a complex presentation of the urban development of Assos will be submitted, including all urban and architectural, archaeological and historical factors. The new urban development model will be conceived in the context of current research on ancient city development in Western Asia Minor and the Aegean.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Turkey
• Participating Person: Professor Dr. Nurettin Arslan