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Firuzkuh is a pretty extreme case, where there is virtually no flat land, and a short life. Amman in Jordan, which I worked on, is not a bad parallel for your interest. There the early city on the hill spread into the valley. The monumental architecture in the valley was due to expansion. Northedge, A., with contributions by Ulrich Hübner, Henry MacAdam, Julian Bowsher and Jason Wood, _Studies on Roman and Islamic Amman, vol. 1, History, Site and Architecture_, British Academy Monographs in Archaeology no. 3, British Academy/OUP. 1993. all the best Alastair Northedge Professeur d'Art et d'Archéologie Islamiques UFR d'Art et d'Archéologie Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Email : Alastair.Northedge@univ-paris1.fr ou anorthedge@orange.fr H-Urban: http://www.h-net.org/~urban/ (including logs & posting guidelines) Posting Address: h-urban@h-net.msu.edu / mailto:h-urban@h-net.msu.edu (Click)
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