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Flat Settlement | |||||
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Istanbul | |||||
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Tuzla | |||||
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Contemporary Settlements - Attention | |||||
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Visited - 22/8/2008 | |||||
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| Location: The site lies west of the city of Istanbul; on the Asian side; in the northwestern part of the town of Tuzla. It was immediately west of the Tuzla Elementary School (Ilkokul) in the vegetable garden that lay in the Kale Kapisi-Ayazma District. The site has now been completely destroyed by modern development. It is possible to get to the area by taking the E5 highway from Kadiköy or by taking the shore road. The site was found accidentally when the elementary school was being built [Kansu 1972:31]. |
| Geography and Environment: There are fresh water springs 3-4 km from the site; which lies in the flat plain that the town of Tuzla (which used the be a village) was built on. There is a fresh water spring represented on a 1:100;000 map; 1.5 km north of the site. Kemikli Stream flows east of the site. Today; the site is covered beneath a 1 m thick alluvial deposit. Therefore; the exact measurements of the site could not be determined. The open-air site covers a 100 square-meter area approximately 500 m from the sea (Firatli reports that it is only 150 m from the sea). This publication refers to this site as Tuzla; since this is the name that most archaeological publications have used. Firatli; who studied the profiles of the elementary school construction pit; notes that virgin soil is only 1.5-2 m beneath the surface [Firatli 1958:30]. |
| Destruction Details: It was visited during TAYEx Bizans Marmara in 2008 and it was observed that the field in the west of the Tuzla Atatürk Ilkögretim Ilkokulu school building where the mound was located at, was being used instead as a soccer field. There were weeds around the field and a tree was growing in the center of the field [TAYEx 22.8.2008]. |
