Caravan city

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Some of the ruins of Palmyra.

A caravan city is a city located on and deriving its prosperity from its location on a major trans-desert trade route.[1]

Caravan cities include Dura-Europos, Palmyra[2] and Damascus in Syria, Oulata in Mauritania, Petra in Jordan and Samarkand in Uzbekistan.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Late Antinquity" by Richard Lim in The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 115.
  2. ^ Palmyra as a Caravan City Albert E. Dien, Walter Chapin Simpson Centre for the Humanities, Washington University, 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013. Archived here.

Further reading

  • Sommer, Michael. Hatra. History and culture of a caravan city in Roman-Parthian Mesopotamia. Mainz, 2003. ISBN 3-8053-3252-1

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