ENTFÄLLT - NEW RESEARCH ON PONTIC URBANISM AND CONFLICT LANDSCAPES. THE CITY OF HADRIAN THROUGH THE AGES
Der Abendvortrag "New Research on Pontic Urbanism and Conflict Landscapes. The City of Hadrianopolis Through the Ages“ von Doç. Dr. Ersin Çelikbaş (Karabük) und Dr. Julia M. Koch (Istanbul) am Donnerstag, 19.02.2026 entfällt.
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The evening lecture ‘New Research on Pontic Urbanism and Conflict Landscapes. The City of Hadrianopolis Through the Ages’ by Doç. Dr. Ersin Çelikbaş (Karabük) and Dr. Julia M. Koch (Istanbul) on Thursday, 19.02.2026 has to be cancelled.
Thank you for your understanding.
Doç. Dr. Ersin Çelikbaş (Karabük) ve Dr. Julia M. Koch (İstanbul) tarafından 19.02.2026 Perşembe günü gerçekleştirilecek olan "New Research on Pontic Urbanism and Conflict Landscapes. The City of Hadrianopolis Through the Ages“ başlıklı konferans iptal edilmiştir.
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Our next lecture takes us to the Turkish Black Sea coast—more specifically to Hadrianopolis. We are pleased to welcome Doç. Dr. Ersin Çelikbaş (Karabük) and our research fellow, Dr. Julia M. Koch (Istanbul), who will talk about "New Research on Pontic Urbanism and Conflict Landscapes. The City of Hadrianopolis Through the Ages".
Started in Hadrianopolis 20 years ago, excavations have advanced our understanding of Pontic urbanism, particularly as reflected in the construction of public monuments and buildings, but also in residential housing. During the Late Roman period especially – when the city became an ecclesiastical hub with a baptistery and several funerary churches – the buildings were lavishly decorated with splendid mosaics of, e.g., the four rivers in the Garden of Eden. In contrast, new discoveries point to the relics of the Late Roman City of Hadrian, which may have turned into a ‚City of the Dead‘ in the later 4th / early 5th century on the basis of burials around abandoned public buildings. Additionally, Roman military finds, the restoration of a fortification, and burnt layers reveal a multi-layered landscape of conflict. This lecture discusses features of Pontic urbanism recently uncovered at Hadrianopolis in a diachronic perspective and the preliminary results of a Turkish-German excavation project of relevance to imperial strategies of resilience, security, and safety (Türkçe Özet).