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The foundation of new cities and towns is a particular aspect of urban history in Late Antiquity. Decades of archaeological work on sites like Iustiniana Prima, Dara, Rusafa, Androna and Zenobia provided ample material on specific cases, but we are still far from having a coherent picture of the background and impact of city foundations in Late Antiquity. Dictated by government decision or favoured by economic and demographic growth, newly-founded cities are witnesses of the realities, needs and ideals of urbanism in their own time and they provide a perspective which is quite different from the usual problems of transformation and decline of pre-existing Graeco-Roman cities. This volume, deriving from a workshop organized in Istanbul in November 2013, brings together studies by archaeologists working on sites that were founded or developed as urban centres during Late Antiquity (3rd to 7th century AD). On the base of case studies and synthetic approaches it is attempted to draw a comprehensive picture of the state of research and a theoretical discussion on the motives and characteristics of city-building and settlement development in Late Antiquity.

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Efthymios Rizos is a Research Associate at Oxford University. He studied at the Universities of Thessaloniki and Oxford (Dphil) and held postdoctoral fellowships at Koc University and the Netherlands Institute in Turkey. His research focuses on various aspects of late antique culture, especially on urbanism in the Balkans and Anatolia, architectural history, the cult of saints and hagiography. Alessandra Ricci is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at Koc University Istanbul. She studied at the Universities of Rome ""La Sapienza"" and Princeton (PhD) and taught at various universities in Italy, Turkey and the United States. Her research interests include Roman and Byzantine archaeology, art and architecture in Constantinople, Anatolia, the Balkans and Italy. She is co-director of the archaeological project at Kucukyali, Istanbul.

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