Settlement In A Defensive Position List
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History of Byzantine Civilization. Thames and Hudson.§REF§" }, { "id": 304, "polity": { "id": 75, "name": "tr_byzantine_emp_2", "long_name": "Byzantine Empire II", "start_year": 867, "end_year": 1072 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Such as castella in Asia Minor used to defend \"strategically important points\".§REF§(Haussig 1971, 95) Haussig, H W. trans Hussey, J M. 1971. History of Byzantine Civilization. Thames and Hudson.§REF§" }, { "id": 305, "polity": { "id": 76, "name": "tr_byzantine_emp_3", "long_name": "Byzantine Empire III", "start_year": 1073, "end_year": 1204 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Such as castella in Asia Minor used to defend \"strategically important points\".§REF§(Haussig 1971, 95) Haussig, H W. trans Hussey, J M. 1971. History of Byzantine Civilization. Thames and Hudson.§REF§" }, { "id": 306, "polity": { "id": 170, "name": "tr_cappadocia_2", "long_name": "Late Cappadocia", "start_year": -330, "end_year": 16 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 307, "polity": { "id": 158, "name": "tr_konya_eca", "long_name": "Konya Plain - Early Chalcolithic", "start_year": -6000, "end_year": -5500 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Base camps with fortified walls are present, defending against animal or human attackers §REF§(Leverani 2014, 39-42) Liverani, Mario. Tabatabai, Soraia trans. 2014. The Ancient Near East. History, society and economy. Routledge. London.§REF§" }, { "id": 308, "polity": { "id": 159, "name": "tr_konya_lca", "long_name": "Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic", "start_year": -5500, "end_year": -3000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Güvercinkayası was located on the top of a steep rock formation§REF§Ancient Anatolia, 10,000-323 B.C.E, S.R. Steadman, G.McMahon, Oxford University Press, 2011. Chapter 36§REF§. \"Mersin-Yumuktepe has been surrounded by massive city wall measuring about a meter thick, which was offset at regular distances and had slit windows at regular intervals from which defenders could safely shoot enemies. This wall was complete with a city gate flanked by two towers. To the East of the city gate, a series of domestic residences was built up against the city wall, each consisting of a front and a back room. The back rooms were about nine to fifteen square meters and might have served as living rooms of nuclear households, Garstang suggestets that they might have been inhabited by soldiers with their families.\"§REF§Ancient Anatolia, 10,000-323 B.C.E, S.R. Steadman, G.McMahon, Oxford University Press, 2011. Chapter 36§REF§" }, { "id": 309, "polity": { "id": 72, "name": "tr_east_roman_emp", "long_name": "East Roman Empire", "start_year": 395, "end_year": 631 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 310, "polity": { "id": 164, "name": "tr_hatti_new_k", "long_name": "Hatti - New Kingdom", "start_year": -1400, "end_year": -1180 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " ‘judging from the fact that in the Late Bronze I (Period V B, 1750-1600 b.c.e.), a town gate was built in the Arslantepe earthen wall defense system, flanked by two bipartite quadrangular towers, which was highly reminiscent of similar central Anatolian gates, such as those at AliŞar or Boğazköy (Palmieri 1978). ... this fortification system arrangement remained unchanged throughout the imperial Hittite and Neo-Hittite periods’§REF§Marcella Frangipane, ‘Arslantepe-Malatya: A Prehistoric and Early Historic Center in Eastern Anatolia’, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000-323 BCE), Edited by Gregory McMahon and Sharon Steadman, 2011, p. 985§REF§" }, { "id": 311, "polity": { "id": 162, "name": "tr_hatti_old_k", "long_name": "Hatti - Old Kingdom", "start_year": -1650, "end_year": -1500 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " ‘judging from the fact that in the Late Bronze I (Period V B, 1750-1600 b.c.e.), a town gate was built in the Arslantepe earthen wall defense system, flanked by two bipartite quadrangular towers, which was highly reminiscent of similar central Anatolian gates, such as those at AliŞar or Boğazköy (Palmieri 1978). ... this fortification system arrangement remained unchanged throughout the imperial Hittite and Neo-Hittite periods’§REF§Marcella Frangipane, ‘Arslantepe-Malatya: A Prehistoric and Early Historic Center in Eastern Anatolia’, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000-323 BCE), Edited by Gregory McMahon and Sharon Steadman, 2011, p. 985§REF§" }, { "id": 312, "polity": { "id": 168, "name": "tr_lydia_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Lydia", "start_year": -670, "end_year": -546 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " citadel mentioned below" }, { "id": 313, "polity": { "id": 169, "name": "tr_lysimachus_k", "long_name": "Lysimachus Kingdom", "start_year": -323, "end_year": -281 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 314, "polity": { "id": 156, "name": "tr_konya_mnl", "long_name": "Konya Plain - Ceramic Neolithic", "start_year": -7000, "end_year": -6600 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Base camps with fortified walls are present, defending against animal or human attackers §REF§(Leverani 2014, 39-42) Liverani, Mario. Tabatabai, Soraia trans. 2014. The Ancient Near East. History, society and economy. Routledge. London.§REF§" }, { "id": 315, "polity": { "id": 155, "name": "tr_konya_enl", "long_name": "Konya Plain - Early Neolithic", "start_year": -9600, "end_year": -7000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " not yet found in settlements such as Göbekli Tepe" }, { "id": 316, "polity": { "id": 157, "name": "tr_konya_lnl", "long_name": "Konya Plain - Late Neolithic", "start_year": -6600, "end_year": -6000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Base camps with fortified walls are present, defending against animal or human attackers §REF§(Leverani 2014, 39-42) Liverani, Mario. Tabatabai, Soraia trans. 2014. The Ancient Near East. History, society and economy. Routledge. London.§REF§" }, { "id": 317, "polity": { "id": 165, "name": "tr_neo_hittite_k", "long_name": "Neo-Hittite Kingdoms", "start_year": -1180, "end_year": -900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Boğazköy on the hill. ‘judging from the fact that in the Late Bronze I (Period V B, 1750-1600 b.c.e.), a town gate was built in the Arslantepe earthen wall defense system, flanked by two bipartite quadrangular towers, which was highly reminiscent of similar central Anatolian gates, such as those at AliŞar or Boğazköy (Palmieri 1978). ... this fortification system arrangement remained unchanged throughout the imperial Hittite and Neo-Hittite periods’§REF§Marcella Frangipane, ‘Arslantepe-Malatya: A Prehistoric and Early Historic Center in Eastern Anatolia’, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000-323 BCE), Edited by Gregory McMahon and Sharon Steadman, 2011, p. 985§REF§" }, { "id": 318, "polity": { "id": 173, "name": "tr_ottoman_emirate", "long_name": "Ottoman Emirate", "start_year": 1299, "end_year": 1402 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": "§REF§Personal communication. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller. 2016. Institute for Medieval Research. Division of Byzantine Research. Austrian Academy of Sciences.§REF§" }, { "id": 319, "polity": { "id": 174, "name": "tr_ottoman_emp_1", "long_name": "Ottoman Empire I", "start_year": 1402, "end_year": 1517 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 320, "polity": { "id": 175, "name": "tr_ottoman_emp_2", "long_name": "Ottoman Empire II", "start_year": 1517, "end_year": 1683 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 321, "polity": { "id": 176, "name": "tr_ottoman_emp_3", "long_name": "Ottoman Empire III", "start_year": 1683, "end_year": 1839 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 322, "polity": { "id": 166, "name": "tr_phrygian_k", "long_name": "Phrygian Kingdom", "start_year": -900, "end_year": -695 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " A citadel in Gordion§REF§DeVries, K., 1993, “The Gordion Excavation Seasons of 1969-1973 and Subsequent Research”, <i>American Journal of Archaeology</i>, Vol. 94, No. 3, pg:374§REF§." }, { "id": 323, "polity": { "id": 71, "name": "tr_roman_dominate", "long_name": "Roman Empire - Dominate", "start_year": 285, "end_year": 394 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Army camps built all over the Empire in preceding Roman Principate. §REF§(cf. Le Bohec 1989, 131§REF§ §REF§Erdkamp 2011§REF§ §REF§Haensch 2012)§REF§" }, { "id": 324, "polity": { "id": 171, "name": "tr_rum_sultanate", "long_name": "Rum Sultanate", "start_year": 1077, "end_year": 1307 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 325, "polity": { "id": 167, "name": "tr_tabal_k", "long_name": "Tabal Kingdoms", "start_year": -900, "end_year": -730 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Urartu’s craftsmen used iron picks and hammers to forge horizontal planes out of bedrock on which to erect the empire’s numerous and imposing stone fortresses. §REF§Lori Khatchadourian, ‘The Iron Age in Eastern Anatolia’, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000-323 BCE), Edited by Gregory McMahon and Sharon Steadman, 2011, p. 480§REF§" }, { "id": 326, "polity": { "id": 32, "name": "us_cahokia_1", "long_name": "Cahokia - Lohman-Stirling", "start_year": 1050, "end_year": 1199 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " There were \"fortified enclaves of Cahokians to the north, for example, at Aztalan in southeastern Wisconsin.\" §REF§(Peregrine/Emerson 2014, 13)§REF§ Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 327, "polity": { "id": 33, "name": "us_cahokia_2", "long_name": "Cahokia - Moorehead", "start_year": 1200, "end_year": 1275 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 328, "polity": { "id": 30, "name": "us_early_illinois_confederation", "long_name": "Early Illinois Confederation", "start_year": 1640, "end_year": 1717 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " In terms of settlement organisation, the main defensive strategy seems to have been to construct larger villages§REF§Illinois State Museum, Illinois Economy: Settlements (2000), <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/ec_settle.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/ec_settle.html</a>§REF§." }, { "id": 329, "polity": { "id": 101, "name": "us_haudenosaunee_1", "long_name": "Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Early", "start_year": 1566, "end_year": 1713 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " \"Village sites were usually located on high banks and were palisaded, indicating defensive priorities. Iroquois men frequently went on extensive hunting forays, leaving their women and children unprotected. This settlement pattern probably provided the best defensive protection under the circumstances.\" §REF§Evaneshko 1975, 19§REF§ \"Villages were built on elevated terraces in close proximity to streams or lakes and were secured by log palisades.\" §REF§Reid 1996, 2§REF§§REF§(Jones 2004, 56) Jones, David. 2004. Native North American Armor, Shields, and Fortifications. Austin: University of Texas Press. Seshat URL: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/collectionKey/943RGM7A/itemKey/HABDQG2T\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/collectionKey/943RGM7A/itemKey/HABDQG2T</a>§REF§" }, { "id": 330, "polity": { "id": 102, "name": "us_haudenosaunee_2", "long_name": "Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Late", "start_year": 1714, "end_year": 1848 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " \"Village sites were usually located on high banks and were palisaded, indicating defensive priorities. Iroquois men frequently went on extensive hunting forays, leaving their women and children unprotected. This settlement pattern probably provided the best defensive protection under the circumstances.\" §REF§Evaneshko 1975, 19§REF§ \"Villages were built on elevated terraces in close proximity to streams or lakes and were secured by log palisades.\" §REF§Reid 1996, 2§REF§" }, { "id": 331, "polity": { "id": 100, "name": "us_proto_haudenosaunee", "long_name": "Proto-Haudenosaunee Confederacy", "start_year": 1300, "end_year": 1565 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " By this period villages were often located on defensible hilltops, away from major routes, and were fortified \"either by ravines or by artificial earthworks and multiple palisades,\" and even watchtowers. Also, \"the placement of houses within a palisade may also have been motivated by defensive considerations\" and to create defensible corridors.§REF§(Snow 1994: 52) Seshat URL: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/TQ4KR3AE\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/TQ4KR3AE</a>.§REF§§REF§(Engelbrecht 2003: 92) Seshat URL: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/FJ3EAI76\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/FJ3EAI76</a>.§REF§" }, { "id": 332, "polity": { "id": 20, "name": "us_kamehameha_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Hawaii - Kamehameha Period", "start_year": 1778, "end_year": 1819 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " \"defenders more commonly established a fortress site known as a pali (cliff) or pā kauau (war enclosure), a “natural or artificial fortress, where they leave their wives and children, and to which they fled if vanquished in the field.” One kind of fortress was the point of a narrow, steep-sided ridge that had been made somewhat defensible by digging deep trenches\".§REF§Hommon, Robert, J. 2013. The Ancient Hawaiian State: Origins of a Political Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pg 35-36.§REF§" }, { "id": 333, "polity": { "id": 22, "name": "us_woodland_1", "long_name": "Cahokia - Early Woodland", "start_year": -600, "end_year": -150 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 334, "polity": { "id": 34, "name": "us_emergent_mississippian_2", "long_name": "Cahokia - Emergent Mississippian II", "start_year": 900, "end_year": 1049 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 335, "polity": { "id": 25, "name": "us_woodland_4", "long_name": "Cahokia - Late Woodland II", "start_year": 450, "end_year": 600 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 336, "polity": { "id": 23, "name": "us_woodland_2", "long_name": "Cahokia - Middle Woodland", "start_year": -150, "end_year": 300 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 337, "polity": { "id": 26, "name": "us_woodland_5", "long_name": "Cahokia - Late Woodland III", "start_year": 600, "end_year": 750 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 338, "polity": { "id": 24, "name": "us_woodland_3", "long_name": "Cahokia - Late Woodland I", "start_year": 300, "end_year": 450 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 339, "polity": { "id": 28, "name": "us_cahokia_3", "long_name": "Cahokia - Sand Prairie", "start_year": 1275, "end_year": 1400 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 340, "polity": { "id": 27, "name": "us_emergent_mississippian_1", "long_name": "Cahokia - Emergent Mississippian I", "start_year": 750, "end_year": 900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Settlements primarily located for access to water and arable land. §REF§(Peregrine 2014, personal communication)§REF§" }, { "id": 341, "polity": { "id": 29, "name": "us_oneota", "long_name": "Oneota", "start_year": 1400, "end_year": 1650 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " The sites of Sleeth and C.W. Cooper were located on \"steep, defensible bluff crests\" §REF§T. Pauketat and J. Brown, The late prehistory and protohistory of Illinois, in J.A. Walthall and T.E. Emerson (eds.) Calumet & fleur-de-lys: archaeology of Indian and French contact in the midcontinent (1992), pp. 77-128§REF§." }, { "id": 342, "polity": { "id": 296, "name": "uz_chagatai_khanate", "long_name": "Chagatai Khanate", "start_year": 1227, "end_year": 1402 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": " \"When Chagatai inherited Ganghis Khan's land and established the Chagatai Khanate, ranging from the area north of the Tian Shan Mountains to Samarkand, Almaliq was made the capital city.\"§REF§Jeong Su-Il. 20016. The Silk Road Encyclopedia. Seoul Selection. Irvine.§REF§" }, { "id": 343, "polity": { "id": 469, "name": "uz_janid_dyn", "long_name": "Khanate of Bukhara", "start_year": 1599, "end_year": 1747 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 344, "polity": { "id": 465, "name": "uz_khwarasm_1", "long_name": "Ancient Khwarazm", "start_year": -1000, "end_year": -521 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 345, "polity": { "id": 464, "name": "uz_koktepe_1", "long_name": "Koktepe I", "start_year": -1400, "end_year": -1000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 346, "polity": { "id": 466, "name": "uz_koktepe_2", "long_name": "Koktepe II", "start_year": -750, "end_year": -550 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 347, "polity": { "id": 287, "name": "uz_samanid_emp", "long_name": "Samanid Empire", "start_year": 819, "end_year": 999 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 348, "polity": { "id": 468, "name": "uz_sogdiana_city_states", "long_name": "Sogdiana - City-States Period", "start_year": 604, "end_year": 711 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 349, "polity": { "id": 370, "name": "uz_timurid_emp", "long_name": "Timurid Empire", "start_year": 1370, "end_year": 1526 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "present", "comment": null, "description": " defensive walls around cities are mentioned below, but not explicitly stating whether natural geographic considerations came into the designing of city defenses" }, { "id": 350, "polity": { "id": 353, "name": "ye_himyar_1", "long_name": "Himyar I", "start_year": 270, "end_year": 340 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Settlements_in_a_defensive_position", "settlements_in_a_defensive_position": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null } ] }