Transcultural Urbanity in the Syrian steppe-desertResafa from the 1st to the 13th century within its regional and overregional context

公元5 - 6世纪，圣塞尔吉奥殉道的圣地雷萨法从罗马晚期的一个边境哨所发展成为东地中海最重要的朝圣地之一。公元8世纪第二季度，倭马亚哈里发Hisham b. Abd al-Malik在拜占庭城市南部地区建立了一个住所。在其存在的整个时期，该遗址得益于其在两条重要商队路线交汇处的位置。该应用程序的主要研究课题源于这一特定的历史和环境处置。该项目旨在分析该遗址从形成到13世纪被遗弃的发展。由于从1952年到2011年内战爆发，雷萨法及其周边地区一直是系统考古田野调查的重点，该遗址的研究条件非常有利（自1975年以来作为DAI的项目）。实际应用的目的是在上级学术方面解释50年的研究成果。研究的第一步将是分析该遗址从罗马防御工事到城市朝圣地点和哈里发住所的城市发展。这是第一次，研究还将整合系统的清单和解释最新的结构，直到十字军东征。与研究内部结构同步，城市更大范围内的所有遗迹都将被纳入分析。使用这种布局，申请人创建一个项目，将在以下主要方面提供实质性的新结果：2.城市建设阶段与城市及其周边地区的发展；2 .城市空间发展的主角；跨文化发展的空间。该项目的研究将总结到目前为止所做的所有基于材料的工作，并根据每个主题的所有书面来源按时间顺序进行解释。项目的上级问题将分析城市发展的原因和后果，区分发展的内生因素和外生因素。此外，将考虑环境、政治、社会、经济和宗教条件，讨论跨文化和跨文化进程。讨论将扩展到地理、历史和文化史方面的理论模型和实际辩论。毫无疑问，选举结果将超出叙利亚北部的地理范围。由于知识的非凡地位和丰富的材料来源，项目的结果将成为周边空间改造过程的典范。这个小组将汇集考古学家、建筑历史学家、历史学家和语言学家。国际研讨会致力于项目的主要研究课题，旨在优化学术交流，咨询项目外的专家。

In the 5th and 6th c. AD, Resafa, holy site of the martyrship of Saint Sergios, developed from a Late Roman frontier post to one of the most important pilgrimage sites of the Eastern Mediterranean. In the 2nd quarter of the 8th c. the Umayyad caliph Hisham b. Abd al-Malik founded a residence in the area south of the byzantine city. Throughout the period of its existence the site profited from its position at the crossing of two important caravan routes. The main research topics of the application result from this specific historical und environmental disposition. The project aims to analyze the development of the site from its formation until its abandonment in the 13th c. As Resafa and its surroundings were in the focus of systematic archaeological fieldwork from 1952 until the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, research conditions at the site are exceptionally favorable (since 1975 as project of the DAI). The actual application aims to interpret the results of 50 years of research under superordinate scholarly aspects. The first step of research will be the analysis of the urban development of the site from the Roman fortification to an urban pilgrimage site and caliphal residence. For the first time research will also integrate the systematic inventory and interpretation of the latest structures until the Crusades. Synchronously to research referring to the structures intra muros, all remains in the wider area of the city will be integrated into the analysis. With this layout the applicants create a project that will deliver substantially new results to the following main aspects: 1. The urban construction phases and the development of the city and its surroundings, 2. Protagonists in the development of the urban space, 3. Spaces of transcultural development. Research within the project will summarize all material-based work that has been done until now and interpret it diachronically, regarding all written sources to each topic. Superordinate questions of the project will analyze the reasons and consequences of the urban development, differentiating between endogenous and exogenous factors of the development. Furthermore intercultural and transcultural processes will be discussed considering environmental, political, social, economic and religious conditions. The discussion will be extended to theoretical models and actual debates of Zentralortforschung in geography, history and cultural history. Without any doubt the results will exceed the geographical frame of Northern Syria. Due to the extraordinary status of knowledge and a rich pool of material sources the results of the project will become paradigmatic for transformation processes in peripheral spaces. The team will bring together archaeologists, building historians, historians, and philologists. International workshops that are dedicated to the main research topics of the project aim to optimize scholarly exchange consulting experts from outside the project.