The Inn of Pont du Gard

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Dumas
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town

Such of my readers as have made a pedestrian excursion to the south of France* may have noticed, midway between the town of Beaucaire and the village of Bellegarde, a small roadside inn, from the front of which hung, creaking and flapping...

The early medieval craft and commercial centre at Janów Pomorski near Elbląg on the South Baltic Coast

Antiquity ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (248) ◽  
pp. 696-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Jagodziński ◽  
Maria Kasprzycka
Keyword(s):  
Field Survey ◽  
The South ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Baltic Coast ◽  
Animal Bone ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town

The settlement of Janów Pomorski was discovered in the spring of 1982 during the AZP field survey (cf Introduction) 7 km southeast of the town of Elbląg in fields adjacent to the village of Janów Pomorski (FIGURES 1,2). An area of over 10 ha produced a wealth of animal bone, raw and worked amber and pottery that indicated a date between the late 8th and loth centuries.

scholarly journals Notes and Inscriptions from Pamphylia

1911 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 215-249
Author(s):  
H. A. Ormerod ◽  
E. S. G. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Great Rivers ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town

The following notes were made by us on a short journey in Pamphylia during March 1911.It had been our intention on reaching Adalia about the middle of the month to go at once into Lycia, but the lateness of the season made the higher ground impossible, and it seemed better to spend a short time in examining the country in the immediate neighbourhood of Adalia, much of which was still imperfectly known (Fig. 1).The best description of the Pamphylian plain is that given by Lanckoronski. From the Kestros to the Melas stretches a low-lying, swampy plain, traversed by three great rivers which come down from the Pisidian highlands, feverish in summer, and during the winter months impossible for wheeled traffic. To the west of the Kestros rises a rocky plateau of travertine some hundred feet above sea-level, on which stands the town of Adalia (Attaleia) on cliffs above the sea, which diminish towards the west. To the north of Adalia rises a third level, which viewed from the south, resembles a high raised beach, running roughly parallel with the present coast as far as the village of Barsak. To the east of that point the hills turn in a north-easterly direction and sink gradually down towards the Kestros. The western part of the plateau is crossed by two main roads, leading respectively to Istanoz and Buldur.

scholarly journals XX. Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa, discovered at Bignor, in Sussex, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S.

Archaeologia ◽  
1817 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Lysons
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
North Side ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church ◽  
Common Field

The village of Bignor, in Sussex, is pleasantly situated on the north side of the South Downs, at the distance of about nine miles from the sea, six miles from Petworth, and about the same distance from Arundel. Within half a mile of the village runs a Roman road very distinctly marked, leading from Chichester by way of Pulborough (where it crosses the river Arun) to Dorking, and from thence to London. On this road there was great reason to expect some traces of a Roman station about Bignor, as Richard of Cirencester, in his fifteenth Iter, next after Regnum, proceeding eastward, introduces a station which he terms “Ad decimum,” not noticed in the Itinerary of Antonine; and Bignor is, by the Roman road, about ten miles disstant from Chichester, the Regnum of the Romans. No Roman remains had however been noticed near this place till the year 1811, when a mosaic pavement was discovered by the plough in the month of July, in a field called the Deny, about a quarter of a mile east of the church, part of a copyhold estate held under the Earl of Newburgh by Mr. George Tupper, a respectable farmer, by whom it is also occupied. The inhabitants of the village have a tradition, that Bignor formerly stood in this field, and the common field adjoining, on the east, called the Town-Field.

scholarly journals New location of Tulipa mongolica and its phytocenotic confinement in the Trans-Baikal Territory

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 397-400
Author(s):  
L. I. Saraeva ◽  
N. M. Pazdnikova
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
Rocky Slope ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town ◽  
New Location ◽  
Protected Zone

The article reports on the new location of a rare, narrow-localized miocene-pliocene relic Tulipa mongolicaY. Z. Zhao, in the Trans-Baikal Territory along the south-eastern sandy-rocky slope of the lake Bayn-Tsagan terrace (Ononsky district), as part of the karaganovo-chiovo-vostretsovaya steppe. In the Trans-Baikal Territory, the tulip grows onthe northern border of its range: in the vicinity of the village Budulan, near the town Malyi Bator (Aginsky district) in thebushyed cold-wormwood-kovylnaya steppe; along the northern coast of the lake Zun-Torey, in the village Kulusutai, nearthe town Gydyrgun (Ononsky district) in the karayganovo-raznotravno-kovylnaya steppe. This cenopopulation is locatedon the territory of the protected zone of the Daursky Nature Reserve.

Matronianus, Comes Isauriae: an Inscription from an Early Byzantine Basilica at Yanıkhan, Rough Cilicia

1985 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 93-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Hill
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
The Road ◽  
Scrub Oak ◽  
The North ◽  
Wild Olive ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Olive Trees ◽  
The Village ◽  
Early Byzantine

The ruins at Yanıkhan form the remains of a Late Roman village in the interior of Rough Cilicia some 8 kilometres inland from the village of Limonlu on the road to Canbazlı (see Fig. 1). The site has not been frequently visited by scholars, and the first certain reference to its existence was made by the late Professor Michael Gough after his visit on 2 September 1959. Yanıkhan is now occupied only by the Yürüks who for years have wintered on the southern slopes of Sandal Dağ. The ancient settlement at Yanıkhan consisted of a village covering several acres. The remains are still extensive, and some, especially the North Basilica, are very well preserved, but there has been considerable disturbance in recent years as stone and rubble have been removed in order to create small arable clearings. The visible remains include many domestic buildings constructed both from polygonal masonry without mortar and from mortar and rubble with coursed smallstone facing. There are several underground cisterns and a range of olive presses. The countryside around the settlement has been terraced for agricultural purposes in antiquity, and is, like the settlement itself, densely covered with scrub oak and wild olive trees. The most impressive remains are those of the two basilical churches which are of little artistic pretension, but considerable architectural interest. The inscription which forms the substance of this article was found on the lintel block of the main west entrance of the South Basilica.

scholarly journals Excavations in Macedonia

1926 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Casson
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Small Stream ◽  
South Side ◽  
South West ◽  
Open Ground ◽  
The Village

The mound of Kilindir (fig. 1) lies about one kilometre south-west of the station of that name on the railway that runs from Salonika to Constantinople via Seres, Dedeagatch and Adrianople. A small stream called Gyol Ayak issues from the south side of Lake Doiran exactly at the modern village at Doiran station. This stream, after passing through nine kilometres of broken and ravined country, issues into more open ground just by the modern Chiflik which represents the pre-war site of the village of Kilindir.

scholarly journals On an Unedited Rhodian Inscription

1881 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 354-361
Author(s):  
C. T. Newton
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
West Side ◽  
South West ◽  
Usual Manner ◽  
The Village

I found this inscription in the ruins of a church called Agia Irenè, about a quarter of an hour's distance from the village of Apolakkia in Rhodes. This village is situated near the sea on the south-west side of the island (see my Travels and Discoveries, i., p. 198).This inscription contains part of two decrees, of which the first was passed by the κοινόν of the Euthalidai. The upper part of the stone being wanting, we only know the latter part of this first decree, from which we learn that a crown had been voted by the κοινόν to Sosikrates, son of Kleonymos, a Netteian, and that this honour was to be publicly proclaimed in the usual manner. We learn further that it was necessary that this decree should be confirmed by a Boulè, ‘senate,’ and Demos, ‘popular assembly,’ to the control of which the Euthalidai were subject.

scholarly journals Vitylo and Cargese

1882 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 354-360
Author(s):  
H. F. Tozer
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Rocky Shores ◽  
The South ◽  
Western Shore ◽  
The Town ◽  
Modern Form ◽  
Of Greece

The central peninsula of the three that project from the south of the Peloponnese, which since the Middle Ages has been known as the district of Maina, is one of the wildest parts of Greece owing to its rugged mountains and rocky shores, and has always been the abode of independent and intractable races. The emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus speaks of the Mainotes as having retained their primitive heathenism until the latter half of the ninth century. At the present day they are notorious for their blood-feuds, which are the scourge of the country, and seriously interfere with its social life. On the western shore of this remote district, near a small harbour that runs in from the Messenian gulf, is the town of Vitylo, one of the comparatively few places in the Morea, though these are more numerous on the seaboard than in the interior, which have retained their classical name. It was formerly called and this appellation now appears in the form which accounts for its pronunciation as Vitylo. The modern form of the name is probably the original one, for Ptolemy calls the place Rather more than two centuries ago this town was the scene of a remarkable emigration. At that time the Turks, who had made themselves masters of Crete in 1669, proceeded to attempt the subjugation of Maina. Spon and Wheler, who sailed round cape Matapan on their way to Constantinople in the summer of 1675, were told that the invaders had succeeded in reducing most of the country by means of forts built on the coasts—they seem to have been aided by the treachery of some of the inhabitants—and that part of the population had escaped to Apulia. A few months after these travellers passed by, a number of the inhabitants of Vitylo and its neighbourhood, amounting to about 1000 souls, were persuaded by the Genoese to emigrate under their auspices to Western Europe. They ware led by one of their countrymen, John Stephanopoulos, and were established by their new protectors in Corsica, which was at that time a Genoese possession; and in that island their descendants remain at the present day.

On the Chloride Waters of Great Britain

1945 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 267-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The South ◽  
Very Old ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Exact Position ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Village ◽  
Made In

Formerly there were several surface brine springs in the North-East Coalfield; to-day there are none. From the many accounts of their occurrence nothing has been learned of their exact position, and very little of the composition of their waters. The earliest record, made in 1684, described the Butterby spring (Todd, 1684), and then at various times during the next two centuries brine springs at Framwellgate, Lumley, Birtley, Walker, Wallsend, Hebburn, and Jarrow were noted. In particular the Birtley salt spring is often mentioned, and on the 6-in. Ordnance map, Durham No. 13, 1862 edition, it is sited to the south-east of the village. Although no record has been found there must have been either a brine spring or well at Gateshead, for the name of the present-day suburb, Saltwell, is very old, and brine springs are still active in the coal workings of that area.

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