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The mounds are often the only substantial features of note in the landscape. Here, the view from Tekkehoyugu meets no impediment until KuCukkoy appears on the horizon. Note also the smoothing effect on the landscape of the unfenced fields. The roughness of the vegetation on the mound itself, visible in the foreground of the picture, is an interesting feature. Village women sometimes come to mounds specifically to collect herbs or grasses that do not otherwise grow in the fields.
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The mounds are often the only substantial features of note in the landscape. Here, the view from Tekkehoyugu meets no impediment until KuCukkoy appears on the horizon. Note also the smoothing effect on the landscape of the unfenced fields. The roughness of the vegetation on the mound itself, visible in the foreground of the picture, is an interesting feature. Village women sometimes come to mounds specifically to collect herbs or grasses that do not otherwise grow in the fields.
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The grave in the small cemetery by the mound at which vows adak may be made for the relief of the sick. Such auspicous graves, or yatir, are a feature of the cultural landscape. They may mark an Islamic grave such as this one, or they may be imagined restrospectively, or they may be assumed upon a mound. It is Hasluck's great insight to realise that, agin Ramsay, these presumptions vary greatly across time and are not fixed by any necessary cultural continuity.
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The grave in the small cemetery by the mound at which vows adak may be made for the relief of the sick. Such auspicous graves, or yatir, are a feature of the cultural landscape. They may mark an Islamic grave such as this one, or they may be imagined restrospectively, or they may be assumed upon a mound. It is Hasluck's great insight to realise that, agin Ramsay, these presumptions vary greatly across time and are not fixed by any necessary cultural continuity.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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The gradual absorption of the archaeological heritage of the Anatolian plain into outside world is an increasingly important topic in assessing the interchange of ideas between Europe and Turkey, and indeed the Islamic world. It is equally fascinating when looked at in detail in the Cumra plain. One aspect of this interchange was the contruction of the railway, and then the irrigation works that still partly serves the plain today. They were built by the Germans, as part of their assistance to the Ottoman Empire and the Baghdad Railway project, and Cumra was built around the small group of houses that they left behind. These houses are today used as lodgings by the State Water Works (DSI), who though partly privatised, still have the use of them. Through my work in the archives of the DSI, it appears that the Germans conducted an immensely thorough survey of the plain without being interested in its prehistory. This contrasts with the work at Perge (Pergamon) which was stimulated by the German Railway officials, and resulted in the transportation of artefacts and pieces of the alter to Berlin, where they are today. Thus, if the Germans had been interested in pre-history, a series of mounds in the Cumra plain of Anatolia would perhaps have been opened almost a century ago.
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Conspicuous consumption of water in Turkey, in spite of most of the country being semi-arid, is an interesting cultural characteristic that has not, to my knowledge, been written up. See also the greenery at the House of the Virgin Mary, and in the picnic area in SirCalihoyugu.
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Conspicuous consumption of water in Turkey, in spite of most of the country being semi-arid, is an interesting cultural characteristic that has not, to my knowledge, been written up. See also the greenery at the House of the Virgin Mary, and in the picnic area in SirCalihoyugu.
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Cumra station, like most in Anatolia, was built at the same time as the track. Again, like many stations, it was built by the Germans, and remains in use today. Cumra owes its existence to the railway line but only really began to grow as a town in the 1950s, when DDT was used to lessen the mosquitoes. The villagers say that they would kill cattle through their bites before the DDT use, preventing the area from being exploited properly. I witnessed some swarms in 1993 before the water level dropped so far as to prevent them from being a very serious intrusion, and they were astonishingly vicious, biting through quite thick clothing.
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Cumra station, like most in Anatolia, was built at the same time as the track. Again, like many stations, it was built by the Germans, and remains in use today. Cumra owes its existence to the railway line but only really began to grow as a town in the 1950s, when DDT was used to lessen the mosquitoes. The villagers say that they would kill cattle through their bites before the DDT use, preventing the area from being exploited properly. I witnessed some swarms in 1993 before the water level dropped so far as to prevent them from being a very serious intrusion, and they were astonishingly vicious, biting through quite thick clothing.
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Cumra station, like most in Anatolia, was built at the same time as the track. Again, like many stations, it was built by the Germans, and remains in use today. Cumra owes its existence to the railway line but only really began to grow as a town in the 1950s, when DDT was used to lessen the mosquitoes. The villagers say that they would kill cattle through their bites before the DDT use, preventing the area from being exploited properly. I witnessed some swarms in 1993 before the water level dropped so far as to prevent them from being a very serious intrusion, and they were astonishingly vicious, biting through quite thick clothing.
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Cumra station, like most in Anatolia, was built at the same time as the track. Again, like many stations, it was built by the Germans, and remains in use today. Cumra owes its existence to the railway line but only really began to grow as a town in the 1950s, when DDT was used to lessen the mosquitoes. The villagers say that they would kill cattle through their bites before the DDT use, preventing the area from being exploited properly. I witnessed some swarms in 1993 before the water level dropped so far as to prevent them from being a very serious intrusion, and they were astonishingly vicious, biting through quite thick clothing.
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Cumra station, like most in Anatolia, was built at the same time as the track. Again, like many stations, it was built by the Germans, and remains in use today. Cumra owes its existence to the railway line but only really began to grow as a town in the 1950s, when DDT was used to lessen the mosquitoes. The villagers say that they would kill cattle through their bites before the DDT use, preventing the area from being exploited properly. I witnessed some swarms in 1993 before the water level dropped so far as to prevent them from being a very serious intrusion, and they were astonishingly vicious, biting through quite thick clothing.
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Cumra station, like most in Anatolia, was built at the same time as the track. Again, like many stations, it was built by the Germans, and remains in use today. Cumra owes its existence to the railway line but only really began to grow as a town in the 1950s, when DDT was used to lessen the mosquitoes. The villagers say that they would kill cattle through their bites before the DDT use, preventing the area from being exploited properly. I witnessed some swarms in 1993 before the water level dropped so far as to prevent them from being a very serious intrusion, and they were astonishingly vicious, biting through quite thick clothing.
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Cumra is famous for its melons, which are sold in Konya and further afield. In times of drought or abnormally high temperatures, the crop fails completely because the melons fail to expand or burn, but in normal years the cash income from melon crops can be very large indeed. Melons are only one of several crops that the villagers around Cumra may grow, and explains way the economic input from the site has, so far, had a limited overall impact.
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Cumra is famous for its melons, which are sold in Konya and further afield. In times of drought or abnormally high temperatures, the crop fails completely because the melons fail to expand or burn, but in normal years the cash income from melon crops can be very large indeed. Melons are only one of several crops that the villagers around Cumra may grow, and explains way the economic input from the site has, so far, had a limited overall impact.
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This house, at the end of the row, next to the station is one of several original houses remaining in the central streets. It is said to have been built for the workers on the station building, and then later used by the migrants to the town.
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This house, at the end of the row, next to the station is one of several original houses remaining in the central streets. It is said to have been built for the workers on the station building, and then later used by the migrants to the town.
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This house, at the end of the row, next to the station is one of several original houses remaining in the central streets. It is said to have been built for the workers on the station building, and then later used by the migrants to the town.
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Cumra: station workers' house 2 (side elevation) |
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This house, at the end of the row, next to the station is one of several original houses remaining in the central streets. It is said to have been built for the workers on the station building, and then later used by the migrants to the town.
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Turkish people from the Balkan countries feature largely amongst Cumra's population because the site was used as the location for immigrant groups who needed formally locating by the state. Later, there have come also migrants from the poorer mountain regions surrounding Konya. However, by and large, the town appears to be an extremely successful social mix. These houses are typical of those they immigrants first lived in, and outside of the immediate centre of the town, many of them survive and remain lived in.
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Turkish people from the Balkan countries feature largely amongst Cumra's population because the site was used as the location for immigrant groups who needed formally locating by the state. Later, there have come also migrants from the poorer mountain regions surrounding Konya. However, by and large, the town appears to be an extremely successful social mix. These houses are typical of those they immigrants first lived in, and outside of the immediate centre of the town, many of them survive and remain lived in.
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Turkish people from the Balkan countries feature largely amongst Cumra's population because the site was used as the location for immigrant groups who needed formally locating by the state. Later, there have come also migrants from the poorer mountain regions surrounding Konya. However, by and large, the town appears to be an extremely successful social mix. These houses are typical of those they immigrants first lived in, and outside of the immediate centre of the town, many of them survive and remain lived in.
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Migrant house (goCmen evi) |
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Turkish people from the Balkan countries feature largely amongst Cumra's population because the site was used as the location for immigrant groups who needed formally locating by the state. Later, there have come also migrants from the poorer mountain regions surrounding Konya. However, by and large, the town appears to be an extremely successful social mix. These houses are typical of those they immigrants first lived in, and outside of the immediate centre of the town, many of them survive and remain lived in.
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Turkish people from the Balkan countries feature largely amongst Cumra's population because the site was used as the location for immigrant groups who needed formally locating by the state. Later, there have come also migrants from the poorer mountain regions surrounding Konya. However, by and large, the town appears to be an extremely successful social mix. These houses are typical of those they immigrants first lived in, and outside of the immediate centre of the town, many of them survive and remain lived in.
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Turkish people from the Balkan countries feature largely amongst Cumra's population because the site was used as the location for immigrant groups who needed formally locating by the state. Later, there have come also migrants from the poorer mountain regions surrounding Konya. However, by and large, the town appears to be an extremely successful social mix. These houses are typical of those they immigrants first lived in, and outside of the immediate centre of the town, many of them survive and remain lived in.
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New mosque building is one of the most notable aspects of the modern Turkish architectural landscape. This example is fairly typical - new mosques have high minarets, stone finish, and domes. In broad, they mimic the Ottoman classical style. The alternative style, a broader building with low minaret and flat roof seems to be both traditional in this region (perhaps mimicking Seljuk styles) and also more favoured by the Republican state.
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New mosque building is one of the most notable aspects of the modern Turkish architectural landscape. This example is fairly typical - new mosques have high minarets, stone finish, and domes. In broad, they mimic the Ottoman classical style. The alternative style, a broader building with low minaret and flat roof seems to be both traditional in this region (perhaps mimicking Seljuk styles) and also more favoured by the Republican state.
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New mosque building is one of the most notable aspects of the modern Turkish architectural landscape. This example is fairly typical - new mosques have high minarets, stone finish, and domes. In broad, they mimic the Ottoman classical style. The alternative style, a broader building with low minaret and flat roof seems to be both traditional in this region (perhaps mimicking Seljuk styles) and also more favoured by the Republican state.
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New mosque building is one of the most notable aspects of the modern Turkish architectural landscape. This example is fairly typical - new mosques have high minarets, stone finish, and domes. In broad, they mimic the Ottoman classical style. The alternative style, a broader building with low minaret and flat roof seems to be both traditional in this region (perhaps mimicking Seljuk styles) and also more favoured by the Republican state.
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The state-run Toprak Mahsullari Ofisi (Arable Crops Office) buys and stores crops from the villages, though the prices it sets (and their impact on the national economy) are the subject of frequent debate.
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The state-run Toprak Mahsullari Ofisi (Arable Crops Office) buys and stores crops from the villages, though the prices it sets (and their impact on the national economy) are the subject of frequent debate.
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The municipality have built a new market building and hotel: culturally the internal decoration of the hotel space and a debating chamber within is modelled on modern Arab rather than western d?r.
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Cumra: the new municipality hotel and market centre |
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The municipality have built a new market building and hotel: culturally the internal decoration of the hotel space and a debating chamber within is modelled on modern Arab rather than western d?r.
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The images of Cumra show a small town that is booming, albeit perhaps in not a very beautiful way, through the exploitation of irrigation and fertilizer on the rich arable land.
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Donating buildings as lodgings for a specific group or association is one of the most usual forms of charitable action, and has the advantage that the use to which the gift will be put is fairly constrained. Sabanci is one of the largest industrial groups in Turkey, and here has donated a building for the use of school teachers.
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Donating buildings as lodgings for a specific group or association is one of the most usual forms of charitable action, and has the advantage that the use to which the gift will be put is fairly constrained. Sabanci is one of the largest industrial groups in Turkey, and here has donated a building for the use of school teachers.
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In Cumra, the town's tea garden is frequented only by men, who meet and chat there throughout the day.
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In Cumra, the town's tea garden is frequented only by men, who meet and chat there throughout the day.
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Exactly where CH artifacts will go is not clear. At the moment, they are divided between the Konya museum and Ankara. However, Cumra wishes also to commission a museum, and has offered this Republican-built building for the puropose. Though until recently a Girls' school, it was originally a halk evi, that is a building built at the behest of the Republic People's Party as a social centre with which to introduce their reforms. Strongly built and central, this would be ideal, though the Cumra municipality will have also to pay for the restoration of the building if they are to have any chance to gain what they wish.
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Exactly where CH artifacts will go is not clear. At the moment, they are divided between the Konya museum and Ankara. However, Cumra wishes also to commission a museum, and has offered this Republican-built building for the puropose. Though until recently a Girls' school, it was originally a halk evi, that is a building built at the behest of the Republic People's Party as a social centre with which to introduce their reforms. Strongly built and central, this would be ideal, though the Cumra municipality will have also to pay for the restoration of the building if they are to have any chance to gain what they wish.
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Exactly where CH artifacts will go is not clear. At the moment, they are divided between the Konya museum and Ankara. However, Cumra wishes also to commission a museum, and has offered this Republican-built building for the puropose. Though until recently a Girls' school, it was originally a halk evi, that is a building built at the behest of the Republic People's Party as a social centre with which to introduce their reforms. Strongly built and central, this would be ideal, though the Cumra municipality will have also to pay for the restoration of the building if they are to have any chance to gain what they wish.
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Exactly where CH artifacts will go is not clear. At the moment, they are divided between the Konya museum and Ankara. However, Cumra wishes also to commission a museum, and has offered this Republican-built building for the puropose. Though until recently a Girls' school, it was originally a halk evi, that is a building built at the behest of the Republic People's Party as a social centre with which to introduce their reforms. Strongly built and central, this would be ideal, though the Cumra municipality will have also to pay for the restoration of the building if they are to have any chance to gain what they wish.
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Exactly where CH artifacts will go is not clear. At the moment, they are divided between the Konya museum and Ankara. However, Cumra wishes also to commission a museum, and has offered this Republican-built building for the puropose. Though until recently a Girls' school, it was originally a halk evi, that is a building built at the behest of the Republic People's Party as a social centre with which to introduce their reforms. Strongly built and central, this would be ideal, though the Cumra municipality will have also to pay for the restoration of the building if they are to have any chance to gain what they wish.
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Exactly where CH artifacts will go is not clear. At the moment, they are divided between the Konya museum and Ankara. However, Cumra wishes also to commission a museum, and has offered this Republican-built building for the puropose. Though until recently a Girls' school, it was originally a halk evi, that is a building built at the behest of the Republic People's Party as a social centre with which to introduce their reforms. Strongly built and central, this would be ideal, though the Cumra municipality will have also to pay for the restoration of the building if they are to have any chance to gain what they wish.
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Exactly where CH artifacts will go is not clear. At the moment, they are divided between the Konya museum and Ankara. However, Cumra wishes also to commission a museum, and has offered this Republican-built building for the puropose. Though until recently a Girls' school, it was originally a halk evi, that is a building built at the behest of the Republic People's Party as a social centre with which to introduce their reforms. Strongly built and central, this would be ideal, though the Cumra municipality will have also to pay for the restoration of the building if they are to have any chance to gain what they wish.
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Exactly where CH artifacts will go is not clear. At the moment, they are divided between the Konya museum and Ankara. However, Cumra wishes also to commission a museum, and has offered this Republican-built building for the puropose. Though until recently a Girls' school, it was originally a halk evi, that is a building built at the behest of the Republic People's Party as a social centre with which to introduce their reforms. Strongly built and central, this would be ideal, though the Cumra municipality will have also to pay for the restoration of the building if they are to have any chance to gain what they wish.
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The offices of the kaymakamlik do not just contain working spaces for the sub-province governor but also for the courts and the land and population registry offices. They form the hub of the administrative business of the sub-province, and are usually full of supplicants sorting out their business. The field records for the CH region, now deposited at the site, were obtained from these offices.
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The offices of the kaymakamlik do not just contain working spaces for the sub-province governor but also for the courts and the land and population registry offices. They form the hub of the administrative business of the sub-province, and are usually full of supplicants sorting out their business. The field records for the CH region, now deposited at the site, were obtained from these offices.
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Post-office and police lie next to the sub-province offices.
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Post-office and police lie next to the sub-province offices.
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Post-office and police lie next to the sub-province offices.
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The growth of Koranic schools is one of the indicators that secularists use to worry over the re-Islamification of Turkey. Such courses may take place informally through mosques, here however there is an officially-registered course administered by the Directorate of Religious Affairs, whose local officials are known as 'mufti'.
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The growth of Koranic schools is one of the indicators that secularists use to worry over the re-Islamification of Turkey. Such courses may take place informally through mosques, here however there is an officially-registered course administered by the Directorate of Religious Affairs, whose local officials are known as 'mufti'.
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This mosque, with tiled roof rather dome contrasts sharply in style with the newer forms (see for example Image 251).
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This mosque, with tiled roof rather dome contrasts sharply in style with the newer forms (see for example Image 251).
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