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Document Details : Title: The Creation of Ottoman Damascus Subtitle: Architecture and Urban Development in the 16th and 17th Centuries Author(s): WEBER, Stefan Journal: ARAM Periodical Volume: 10 Issue: 1-2 Date: 1998 Pages: 431-470 DOI: 10.2143/ARAM.10.1.2002152 Abstract : Modern-day urban landscapes in the Near East are contemporary witnesses to their history. Thus, four hundred years of Ottoman presence (1516-1918) and cultural concepts left a distinctive imprint on urban centres in Syria. The cityscapes of both Aleppo and Damascus, for example, were largely modified by important trade centres and mosques during the first one hundred years after their incorporation into the Ottoman Empire. The urban skyline of both cities is marked by wide-span domes and variations on the typical Ottoman ‘pencil shaped minarets’, as well as by a series of civil foundations situated in the suq and bearing the names of a number of Ottoman civil servants. The Ottoman presence is evident for the visitor to these cities. |
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