South-Eastern Anatolia at a crossroads: a multicultural Mediterranean area from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine period

The volume will collect the results of a thematic session organized within the EAA Congress held in Barcelona in 2018 by prof. Emanuela Borgia from Sapienza University of Rome, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. The session was focused on the analysis of a particular geographic area of the Mediterranean, encompassing all the regions south of the Taurus range (Cilicia, Isauria, Pamphylia and Pisidia) facing the sea and being naturally, throughout their history, in strict contact with the island of Cyprus to the south and with the coast of northern Syria to the east. South-eastern Anatolia was actually a key crossroads of people and cultures, in a crucial point between East and West. Due to its strategic geographic position connecting (through maritime and terrestrial routes) Anatolia and Syria and to the facility of contacts with the whole eastern Mediterranean, the region was characterised by manifold processes of mobility, migrations and cultural interchanges