Mehmet Bildirici (1939)
 
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Welcome to "bbb" (bildirici knowledge collection). I was born in Konya in 1939, I graduated from Konya Lyceum and Inşaat Faculty of Istanbul Technical University. I have worked in Konya for 30 years. Now I live in Istanbul.

I have been working on historical water supply systems and water culture heritage since 1991. I have attended many conferences and seminars like ‘International Cura Aquarum conferences’. I have many discussed and published proceedings in English language.

If you are interested in these subjects I invite you to visit "bbb".

Hazırlayan thomas Schmitz

HISTORICAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS OF ANATOLIAN ANCIENT CITIES

MEHMET BİLDİRİCİ c.v.

He was born on 24.02.1939 in Konya. He finished in 1957 Konya Lisesi and in 1962 Technical University of Istanbul as Civil Engineer (insaat yüksek mühendisi). 30 years he worked in Konya. In the years 1971-1982 he taught in Konya Academy, (now inside of Seljuk University), and gave Building Materials, and the Static of Construction. He worked furthermore from 1984-1996, in DSI IV. Regional Directorate and then was retired. In 1996 he moved to Istanbul. In 1997-1998 he became Consultant (Müsavir) for Yeşilçay Project. In addition, from 1997 he worked as consultant (bilirkişi) for the courts in Istanbul. Since 1991 he works about historical water supply systems. Two books were published by DSI General Directorate in 1994 and 2004. Now he lives in Istanbul.

1.0 HISTORICAL WATER SUPPLY

1.3 MY PROCEEDING ABOUT HISTORICAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS

In this chapter the proceedings and other works of the WEB OWNER can be reached. These texts are inside of Turkish “1.3 TARİHİ SU YAPILARI”. First download Turkish “1.3. TARİHİ SU YAPILARI”, then follow mentioned pages below.

 

1.3.8- ‘The Project of Konya Plains

Report was prepared for the Director of Konya of State Hydraulic Works (DSI)

Pages 168-172 

 

1.3.11-“Historical Irrigations in the Plain of Ereğli of Konya”  1996-3

(16th Congress of ICID, Cairo -Egypt. 1996)  (with Öztuğ Bildirici). (History seminar 1 G) 
Pages 179-194

 

1.3 15-“Historical Irrigation in the Plain of Bayburt” (with Ö.Bildirici)  1999

(17th international congress of ICID, Grenada-Spain, 1999)           

 History seminar 1J Pages 71-86 (R8)
Pages 255-272   

 

1.3.16  -"Historical irrigation systems in the region of Konya through ages” (with Ö.Bildirici)  1999

(17th international congress of ICID, Grenada-Spain, 1999)           

 History seminar 1J s. 87-106 (R9)

Pages 274 - 295 

 

 1.3.19-“Modern Irrigation system of Konya Plain- Konya Ovası Sulaması”  2000

(English & Turkish) Çatalhöyük'ten bugüne Çumra,

Konya-Çumra 15-16 September 2000. p.161-168

Pages 322 - 334

 

1.3.20-“Historical dams of Anatolia”  2001

11th International conference on water in antiquity, 7-12 May 2001, Israel

Cura Aquarvm in Israel, (The proceedings, p. 137-144)

Siesburg 2002, Germany p.137-143 

Pages 340 - 350

 

1.3.21-‘The Water Supply systems of ancient Galata

18th International congress of ICID, Montreal, Canada

Pages 350 - 363

 

1.3.24- “The Cistern and the aqueduct of Ceramos in ancient Caria”, 2004

12th Cura Aquarvm in Ephesos, 2-10 October 2004, Kuşadası

Pages 385 - 398

 

 1.3.26- “Kilyos water supply system with Suterazis” 2007

 13th Cura Aquarvm in Jordan  01-19 April 2007  

Pages 404 - 410

 

 1.4 FROM WORLD WATER FORUM 5 (WWF5) IN MARCH 2009 IN ISTANBUL

 THESE ARTICLES WERE DİSCUSSED AND PUBLISHED IN WORLD WATER FORUM 5

MEHMET BİLDİRİCİ

He was born on 24.02.1939 in Konya. He finished in 1957 Konya Lisesi and in 1962 Technical University of Istanbul as Civil Engineer (insaat yüksek mühendisi). 30 years he worked in Konya. In the years 1971-1982 he taught in Konya Academy, (now inside of Seljuk University), and gave Building Materials, and the Static of Construction. He worked furthermore from 1984-1996, in DSI IV. Regional Directorate and then was retired. In 1996 he moved to Istanbul. In 1997-1998 he became Consultant (Müsavir) for Yeşilçay Project. In addition, from 1997 he worked as consultant (bilirkişi) for the courts in Istanbul. Since 1991 he works about historical water supply systems. Two books were published by DSI General Directorate in 1994 and 2004. Now he lives in Istanbul.

1.5 WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN HITTITE AND URARTU TİMES

 Hittites lived in Central Anatolia in the second millennium BC and they have constructed dams and water monuments. Urartian people lived in Eastern Anatolia in first millennium BC and they have constructed dams, long irrigation canals to improve their economy. Very very interesting, Urartian hydraulic monuments survive today and they are being in use too. These monuments are the fruits of the rich Anatolian civilization and only can be seen here in Turkey.

 Anatolia, (Turkish Anadolu) now Turkey was the cradle of several civilizations. I believe this is the richness of our country. These monuments must be examined, must be under protection and carried to the future to younger generations. How will be organized? Which plans must be done? I believe that if we love and examine the subjects and share them with International communities, our cultural heritage and the whole World civilization will be winner. 

 (5th World Water Forum 5)

(Topic 6.5 Water and Culture p.46-47)

 

1.6 A TALE OF WATER February 2009

(This book was published as the activity of WWF5)

 A VERY INTERESTİNG INTERVİEV WİTH MEHMET BİLDİRİCİ 

Page 58/282

FOR THE GREEKS WATER MEANT DEVELOPMENT

 “In the Greek cities of both Greece and Anatolia, great importance was assigned to bringing water into the city, and fresh spring water was considered as important as the level of city’s development”

 One of the most important contributions of the Greeks in Anatolia to the word was undoubtedly that they transmitted the scientific knowledge symbolized by Thales to many other civilizations. MEHMET BİLDİRİCİ is an engineer who also served as a lecturer on the Engineering Faculty at Selçuk University in Konya. He has researched historical waterworks in Anatolia, and of Thales, who could be considering his colleague, he had the following to say:

Bildirici: Thales who lived in Miletos (Milet) during the years 624-548 BC, was a person at the cutting edge of this civilization. We have little information about Thales’ life; we only know that he was one of the seven sages of the first period.

Thales was the first here to adopt a revolutionary view. He held that natural events were not godly; that events should be examined with the human mind. This thought was a completely novel approach. Western culture and understanding are considered to have begun with Thales. At the same time, Thales was a philosopher, a mathematician, an engineer and a hydrologist. Thales considered water one of the main components of nature, and introduced the view that land in the World floated on the sea.

 Thales believed that water was the main substance of the Word. The Hellenic culture in which he grew up assigned great importance to the water. To the Greeks, water was a sign of development.

Bildirici; In the Greek cities of both Greece and Anatolia, great importance was assigned to bringing water into the city; and fresh spring was considered as important as the level of city’s development. The stream that was brought to the cities was used at the street fountains, in the major buildings of the city and in the baths. It is known that most houses included a bath, and there were cisterns under the houses of the wealthy, were the rain water was stored. During this period, there was no plumbing in houses; water was brought to he houses from the street fountains. Many houses relied on well water.

 As they planned their cities, they also considered the distribution and usage of the water, to which they payed so much attention.

Bildirici: Many cities in Anatolia and Greece had been built in accordance with the plans of city planner Hippodamus from Miletos. In those plans, in which the streets were laid out on a grid, the locations of the temples, the city’s water systems, waste water removal and protection were pre-planned.

 They employed a variety of techniques to carry the water over hilly areas and distribute the water in the city. Among these were the siphon system and the lead pipes that are believed to have been first used by Greek civilization.

Bildirici: Most of the cities founded in the Hellenistic period are still underground, awaiting excavation and research. Some of them were destroyed as they were built over during the Roman period. There has been woefully insufficient research and examination of this subject. Thus I only mention a few known examples about how they brought to water to their cities.

We know that they generally used fired ceramic pipe and covered canals to transport water to their cities. They dug tunnels in the waterways. Cisterns inside and outside the city were built to store the water brought in this way as well as rain water.

Excavations have shown that around 2200 BC, the siphon technique was being used to bring water to the Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete. They had noticed that when water pumped from one end of the siphon, water flowed into the other end. The siphon used at Knossos was just a few meters deep. However in later period in the Kingdom of Pergamon in particular, thick walled earthen pipes, lead pipes of much larger proportions were used. The inner diameters of the earthen pipes used to bring to the cities were generally 10 centimeters in diameters, and the pipes were 1-2 centimeters thick. Those used in Pergamon however were 5-7 centimeters thick, as they working under pressure. The waterway was about 20 kilometers long and the valley was about 25 meters deep at the source of pressure. The pipes worked under of 25 meters of water pressure. The pipes were connected with stone blocks 50 centimeters wide. Believed to have been built around 200 BC, the system was first known siphon pressure structure in Anatolia and in the World.

The stone pipe siphon structure has also been seen (Antioch Meander) in Kuyucak, Aydın Province. According to Weber and Fahlbusch who researched the region, these pipes were laid in the Hellenistic period.

On the grounds of Artemis temple, built in the city of Ephesus in the Ionian period and considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, lead pipes were found. This was the first in the history of hydraulics. It is very important example illustrating the level of hydraulics knowledge during the Ionian period. One of these pipes is in on display at the Ephesus Museum.

During the Hellenistic period lead pipe siphon was built on the waterway from Madradağ at the entrance of Acropolis of Pergamon. The length of the valley through which the lead pipe runs is 3250 meters; its deepest point is 160 meters. It is believed that the inner diameter of the lead pipe was 17.5 centimeters, and the pipe wall thickness was 5.5 centimeters.  The pipes were connected to each other with stone rings. It is known that this facility was a major project, with no project of similar proportions until the 19th century. This immense project was carried out during the reign of King Eumenes II.

Water was brought to the capital of Amasya (Amasia) Tower of Pontus Kingdom, via two separate canals. Another structure in this city; which was built during the Hellenistic period, was the “Crimbolu Well”. It is a well 140 meters long, 70 meters deep and 5 meters across, which can be entered via staircase. This well also has an air vent.

 

The Greeks also built a system for removing waste water from the city.

Bildirici: We known that there have been projects to solve the problem of waste water in the antique world since Sumerians. Nippur a Sumerian city and cultural center, had a waste water system. This was mentioned in the book “The Life Story of Lundingirra, the Sumerian” by Sumerologue Muazzez İlmiye Çığ. About 4000 years ago, in the city of Nippur lived a teacher named Lundungirra. Information about his city, his family, and himself were recorded on clay tablets in the Sumerian language, titled “Lundingirra’s Life Story”. The tablet 15 contains the following information about waste water system: “There is a lavatory in the houses under the ladder going up, the bottom of which is covered with bricks, with a large hole in the middle. The waste water is taken to other places via clay pipe, and rendered harmless by certain techniques.”

The Greek cities also had waste water systems. The city of Priene is the only antique city displaying Hellenistic features that had survived undestroyed. The city was laid under the city’s streets. Although we know that these waste water canals were built in the Hellenistic period, we don’t yet enough information about how this waste water was treated.

There are also waste water canals in the city of Ephesus. However the findings are insufficient to tell us whether these belong to the Hellenistic or Roman period.

 Although the Greeks founded many mall city states, they all spoke the same language and shared the same mythology and the beliefs as well as scientific and technological development. They developed this culture by sharing it with other civilizations with which they had relations, and passed the synthesis on the next generations.

Bildirici: The Greeks entered Anatolia under the pressure of the Akaas who were also Greek. There the Ionians, the Aeolians and Dorians established and developed city states. Although the city states were independent in their internal affairs, they were united in their language, religion and mythology. They also worshipped at the same temples. The celebrations at the famous temple of Apollo at Didyma are a very good example of these.

The immigrants that colonized Anatolia absorbed the culture and knowledge gained from the civilizations with which they traded in Anatolia and its surroundings, and out of this, they formed a new and very important synthesis. These developments formed the basis of future civilizations.

The Persian Empire, which conquered and ruled Anatolia from the year 546 BC, on, was not expansionist in terms of culture and religion. They allowed religious and cultural freedom for their subjects on the condition that they obeyed the rules they lay down.

In the year 334 BC., with the campaign of Alexander the Great, the whole of Anatolia came under the Hellenic rule and civilizations. When the Romans came to Anatolia in 33 BC., Hellenistic kingdoms disappeared one by one and in 30 BC., with the death of the last Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, the Hellenic period came to an end politically. However the civilization and the culture that developed in Hellenistic period continued in the Roman period.

 

1.7 THE OTTOMAN WATERWAYS  Pages 151-155

 A TALE OF WATER

GALATA’S WATER

Istanbul was growing by the day. Galata, Sykai (Fig Grove) before the conquest. It was an independent city state under the rule of Genoese from 1303-1453. In time it became a quarter of Istanbul. Muslim Turks, Greeks, Armenians and the Levantines lived together in this area for centuries, and it served as one of the first “doors” that opened to the western word.

Galata received abundant water upon the construction of the Taksim Waterway by Mahmud I in 1732.

The Galatasaray water way, transporting water from Levent Farm to Taksim and Galatasaray, is believed to have been built during the reign of Sultan Beyazıt II (or before by Romans). After the Republic it continued to supply water to Emirgan Fountains and the Technical University of Istanbul (ITU) and was given the name of “Kanlı Kavak Waters” by ISKI (the Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration. (247)

 247 Mehmet Bildirici, “Galata’da Eski Su Yolları”, Istanbul Bülteni, Publication of the Istanbul Branch of the Chamber of Civil Engineers, The Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects, 2002/62, Year 13

 

2.0 HISTORY OF GÖKOVA-AKYAKA

 2.1 FROM IDYMA to GÖKOVA-AKYAKA

The history of the place and its environment

Akyaka is situated in the northwest of the Gökova (Kerme) gulf, 28 km away from Muğla and 32 km from Marmaris. The administration of Akyaka is in Ula, the main place of the district. In its north the mountains raise up to 1000 m high, covered with forest, and its eastern side, there is beautiful valley with a plane, whose sources of fresh water feed the river "Kadın Azmak" (Woman River) and the Akçapınar river. In former times Akyaka was only a "suburb" of the village Gökova village. A few houses which were around today's port (Yeni İskele), which formed the access to the sea for the city of Muğla. Only in the year 1971, the autonomy was given and in 1992, with the appointment as a "belde" the first mayor and the town council were elected. About 1970 it was started the development into a regional tourist center.

In the year 1988 the region was declared as the first "Nature Protected Area" (SPA- special protected area) of Turkey.

Akyaka is with its forest-covered mountains, the crystals-clear rivers, which look just like an aquarium, the sea, the Forest-camp site, with its innumerable springs, its history and its additional wood-using buildings, a much-visited "tourist paradise". In short, Akyaka is a place to live.

The HISTORY

It is known that the area is inhabited for about 2600 years. Earlier settlements are not proven.

The Carian City of IDYMA

In the area, in which today's Akyaka is situated, the city of Idyma was founded. The settlement of Idyma extended east of today's Akyaka up to the village of Gökova (3 km) and the quarters of the İnişdibi and Yazılıtaş up to the ancient port which was nearby the forest camp site.

The Necropolis (rock graves) and the Acropolis are on the mountain-slopes in the north of Gökova. The Acropolis was explored in the year 1937 by the French researcher Louis Robert. Idyma was founded as a Carian city. The name originates from the Carian language. The area, where today's Muğla is situated, is known as the antiquate Caria. The most important city of Caria was Milas. Idyma was situated in the southern Caria. The Carians were the earliest settlers in the area. Whereas the customs and the way of life are known, the language of the Carians, since no documents are found, remained unknown.

In 546 BC, the Persian army conquered the area under the command of Harpagos. Under the Persian rule the customs and the religion remained unchanged. Between 484 and 405 BC, the Delian Sea-federation (Delian League) under the leadership of Athens took over the administration. Idyma was affected too. In the tax lists of the years 453-452 BC, of the Delian Sea-federation Idyma is already mentioned.  This is the earliest document concerning the city of Idyma. Additionally in these reports a leader is mentioned named PAKTYES, It is considered that the city was governed for a long time by the dynast of Pakytes. The City produced coins. One side was marked with IDIMION (IDIMION), the other side has the head of PAN. It is well known that the cult of the shepherds, the God PAN was of great importance in the region.

The Delian Sea federation ended in 405 BC. Idyma separated already around 440 BC, from this federation. The Spartian general Lysandros destroyed the city Cedrea (Sedir Adası) in 405 BC.

At the ridge of Gökova and the eastern side of İnişdibi rock tombs date from this time, dated 4th century BC. One of the tombs has two columns. Architectural style and the mason works are remarkable. It could be made for a member of the house of Paktyes.

Near Gökova, approximately 300 m above the rock tombs, the Acropolis is situated. Nearby there are a 200 m long site walls of Hellenistic time as well as the buildings, and the remnants of cisterns. On the northwestern side of the Acropolis, the road from Marmaris extends to Muğla.

İnişdibi and the mediaeval fortress that was situated in the proximity is a very old settlement area. The old rock tombs show this. It is certainly the fact that the fortress existed from antique times to mediaeval and Byzantine times and then at unknown times it was left. The Byzantine fortress, also mentioned as Genoose fortress (Ceneviz kalesi), would be worth to be restored. From the fortress an underground tunnel leads to the bank of Kadın Azmak.

The neighbors of the Idyma were in the east Callipolis (in the proximity of Kızılyaka), whose name remains still as Gelibolu at the gulf of Gökova. Also Cedrea (Sedir Adası) in the gulf of Gökova was an important naval base. In the west CERAMOS (Gereme- Ören), after it the gulf is named. In the north Thera (Yerkesik) is appropriate, KILLANDOS (Yenice village) and Muğla, at its time a very small settlement.

 

Idyma under the rule of Halikarnassos (Bodrum)

Between 387-334 BC, The Persians took again the rule in the area. King MAUSOLOS (377-353 BC) maintained good contacts with the Persians and governed the region like a free king. He changed the capital from Milas to Halikarnassos (Bodrum). Idyma was situated in the east of this kingdom. This epoch ended when Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) of Macedonia with his army penetrated into the area. There were fortresses in Thera (Yerkesik) and Callipolis (Kızılyaka) at that time.

 

Idyma in Hellenistic Times

With Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic times began in Anatolia and the eastern countries. Greek culture and the language spread very rabidly. The area had a difficult time from 334 BC up to 189 BC, when the peace agreement of Apama (Afyon, Dinar) was reached. Different Hellenic kingdoms governed and confused the region at the same time.

 

Idyma under the rule of Rhodes

In the third century BC, Idyma came under Rhodeian rule and was called Rhodeian Paraea (the opposite side of Rhodes). Idyma freed itself for some time from this rule, however in 200 BC, it was again connected to Rhodes by Nicagoras with Pisi (Pisiköy village), and Killandos (Yenice village), this knowledge comes from an inscription on the island Karpatos (Greece). With the peace agreement of Apama 189 BC, the city of Idyma was connected finally to Rhodes and remained so until the firts century AD.

From these times approximately 10 inscriptions point out that the social life in Idyma is very alive and a "Council" (the Council of the United Idyma) was founded. On these inscriptions we find interesting facts. Inscriptions from the Old Port (the Forest Camp Site) and one attached on a wall in İnişdibi from the later Hellenistic times contain the name of the city. This monument was made for a leading person of the city on the part of the citizens working for him. Besides other different names, which belong to the people from different cities, one reads the name of grammatikos (village officer) DEMETRIUS from Idyma, and Apollonius the son of Antipatrus from Idyma.

In stone parts taken in Forest Camp Site in Akyaka (dated 2. Century BC) we hear of the goddess LETO and the priest of APHRODITE. It is assumed that there was a temple in Old İskele, and in the environment of today's Forest Office. The whole environment showing distributed columns with grooves and processed stone remainders affirm this opinion. Additionally in the Old İskele, in front of the Restaurant, in the sea there are remnants of the foundation walls referring how old the landing place is. There were found inscriptions that include names of the office holders who served in this area in the Rhodian times. An inscription used for the building of new mosque in Yeni İskele carries the names Athenagoras, Thangilio Kirnis, and Pratophon again in Kozlukuyu's inscription were found mentioning Rodokles from Rhodes.

 

The Roman Idyma

At the end of first century AD, Idyma became a Roman city. Before the year 48 BC, Julius CAESAR (102-44 BC) traveled the area around 48 BC to Rhodes. The Egyptian queen CLEOPATRA (69-30 BC) traveled the Aegean coasts and visited the city of Ephesus in the year 41 BC. Only one inscription dedicated for Roman Emperor VESPASIAN (ruled 69-79 AD) in Roman era is missing unfortunately.

Mosaic, was discovered from the Roman time in the excavating in the year 1922, in the ruins of the fortress in İnişdibi.

In the third century AD, when Roman Empire was weak inside and destroyed by strong earthquakes as well as devastating plague, the area fell into oblivion. Idyma and the cities in the environment were left.

Life in Byzantine times

It is not exactly how the area was called in the Byzantine times. On a hill at the south side of today's Camping ground a church with apse was found, built in the name of Saint Kosmas. The adjacent area and the gulf were called after him. From this church stones with crosses, relief and inscription are still to be seen. Additionally two remainders of chapels are at the spring of water systems, and at the creek (Papaz Deresi) that flows into the sea. This place is called "ERENDEDE". At Akyaka the people respected the special feature of Erendede. Rain-prayers were celebrated and wishes were done there. The people cooked Aşure (a soup-like sweet food) and divided it with the present ones.

  

Gökova under Turkish Administration

At the end of 13th century, the area came under Turkish administration. Caria became Menteşe (the name of the region during the Turkish times). In these times one called the region in which Akyaka is situated, COVA (Cova Çukuru, Gökova, Gökabad). At first pantheism, after Christianity, with the Turks Islamic faith came into the area. At first Carian language, later Greek, with the Turks, Turkish language became prevailing and exclusive.  In the area at first Menteşe Principality (Menteşe Beyliği) was found. The capital of this principality was Milas. In the year 1420, it became part of Ottoman Empire. Muğla became capital of the province and Ula as sub-province center.

The highlight in the Ottoman times was the crossing of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (reg.1520-1566) with his army in order to conquer Rhodes. In July 1522 the Ottoman Army came to the region and returned back to Istanbul in 1523. Rhodes was defeated and attached to the Ottoman Empire.

Although the occupation of Rhodes brought well fare for the region again, it should take until the recent times around the year 1950, to partly dry out the wetlands and fight malaria. The road Muğla-Marmaris was built around the year 1970 and with coming of tourism to Akyaka, brought new life and economic boom.

Mehmet Bildirici

Web Site: www.akyaka.org/akyaka/idima/idima_eng.htm

 

(This translation was controlled by Bahar Suseven (Heike)

 

 2.3 THE ENGLISH TEXTS OF IDIMA
In this chapter you can reach original documents of IDYMA ancient city.  These texts in different languages are inside of “2.3 IDYMA KAYNAKLAR”
First download this Turkish file, then follow mentioned pages below

2.3.1 CARIAN COAST
George Bean, pages 31-38

2.3.2 HISTORY OF CARIA
George Bean, pages 101-117

2.3.3 IDIMA ROCK CUT TOMBS
Paavo Roos, pages 125 - 139

2.3.4 FROM HISTORY OF HERODOT
Herodotos, pages 140 - 158

10. THE TRIPS OF MEHMET Bildirici

10.107. TRIP TO VAN, MUSH, HARPOUT

By Etem Tezcan
A group of Armenian and their Turkish friends made an “Armenian Reminiscenses” oriented trip to Van, Mush and Harpout.
One of them, Mehmet Bildirici documented this journey and put it in the internet. I believe the document may be significant for some members of this forum so I translated it into English. You can find the English translation in:

The original document is at:
www.mehmetbildirici.com/download/van_mus.pdf  18 pages

These documents can also be reached by
www.yasni.com/mehmet.bildirici  or    www.armeniangenealogy.org

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14. THE MONUMENTS OF HITITE
The Hitite monuments around Konya, 90 pages
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20.0 HISTORICAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS OF ANATOLIAN ANCIENT CITIES
In this chapter the texts of ancient water supply systems are presented with their Authors and publishing places. He or she are interested in water culture heritage will reach very easy for their future investigating. 

20.1 GENERAL
In this chapter general subjects of Water Culture Heritage can be reached.


20.1.101 HISTORICAL WATER SCHEMES IN TURKEY
Ünal Öziş, 40 pages
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20.1.102 SU TERAZİS
Collected Documents, Photos, 24 pages
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20.1.103 MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY IN ANTIQUITY & MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS IN ANCIENT AQUADUCTS
Henning Fahlbusch, 24 pages (TWO ESSAYS)
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20.1.104 WATER MANAGEMENT FOR IRRIGATION IN ANTIQUITY
(URARTU 850-600 BC)
Gunter Garbrecht, 16 pages
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20.1.105 VITRUVIUS AND FRONTINUS- HYDRAULIC IN ROMAN PERIOD
Henning Fahlbusch, 12 pages
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20.1.106 PRESSURE CONDUITS IN ANCIENT AQUEDUCTS
Henning Fahlbusch, 26 pages
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20.1.107 TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS IN HYDRAULIC ENGİNEERING IN THE LAST 5000 YEARS
Henning Fahlbusch, 18 pages
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20.1.108 URARTIAN IRRIGATION WORKS
Charles Burney, 8 pages
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20.1.109    WATER IN ANTIQUITY
L.W. MAYS & D.KOUTSOYIANNIS
Internet  12 pages

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20.1.110    HEZEKIAH TUNNELS
www.bibleplaces.com       Internet  4 pages
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20.1.111   DEĞİRMENDERE AQUEDUCT TO EPHESOS
Gilbert Wiplinger     14 pages
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20.1.112 ÇİN SINJIANG (UYGUR) BÖLGESİ KARIZLARI
8 pages
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20.2 ANCIENT CITIES IN ANATOLIA (TURKEY)
In this chapter the texts about ancient Anatolian cities can be reached


20.2.101 ANTIOCH, THE AQUEDUCT, NYMPHAEUM, BATH HOUSE
Jean Burdy, Maurice Byrne, Jean Öztürk, Mehmet Taşlıalan, 28 pages
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20.2.102 THE CREMNA AQUEDUCT AND WATER SUPPLY
Eddie J. Owens, 20 pages
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20.2.103 EDESSA, “THE BLESSED CITY”
J.B.Segal, 8 pages (some pages of the book)
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20.2.104 THE EUPALINUS TUNNEL OF SAMOS
Michael Lahanas, 6 pages
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20.2.105 İZMİR (SMYRNA) WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM 1971
CAMP, HARRIS, MASARA, 2 pages
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20.2.106 THE HITTITE DAM OF KARAKUYU
Kutlu Emre, 36 pages
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20.2.107 OIONANDA, THE WATER SUPPLY AND AQUEDUCT
e.c. Stetnton, J.J. Coulton, 52 pages
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20.2.108 PRIENE’S STREETS AND WATER SUPPLY
Dora P. Crouch, 8 pages
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20.2.109 THE AQUEDUCT OF SAGALASSOS

Edwin J. Owens, 24 pages
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20.2.110 THE AQUEDUCT OF ROMAN ILION AND THE BRIDGE
ACROSS THE KEMERDERE VALLEY IN TROAD
William Aylward, Gebhard Bieg, Rüstem Aslan, 32 pages
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20.2.111 ANEMURION AND WATER SUPPLY
Gerhard Huber & photos by Bildirici,  14 pages     
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20.2.112 THE STAIR STEP STRUCTURE AT ANDRIAKE
Dennis Murphy, Melisa Mengel, 6 pages
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20.2.113 THE AQUEDUCT OF EPHESOS
Gilbert Wiplinger,  6 pages
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20.2.114 THE AQUEDUCT AT ASPENDOS AND ITS INVERTED SIPHON
Paul Kessener, 28 pages
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20.2.115 THE WATER CASCADE AT ANDRIAKE (ANTALYA)
Dennis Murphy Melisa Mengel
Cura Aquarum in Israel (Siegburg 2002 12 pages

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20.2.116 THE CISTERN AND RESERVOIRS OF RHODIAPOLIS (ANTALYA)
Dennis Murphy
Cura Aquarum in Ephesus (Paris 2006)
Mehmet Bildirici
Tel: ++90-542-2410302

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