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History of Alasia Ancient City in Cyprus
History of Alasia Ancient City in Cyprus - Famagusta Historical Places
Enkomi - Alasia existed in the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1700 B.C.), but its period of prosperity began c. 1550 B.C., when it is known that it contained a stockpile of metal from the copper mines of the island, as well as being a specialized metalworking industrial town. Expensive building techniques which have been exposed by excavations may be taken as an index to the wealth and high standard of living of the city's merchants. Their considerable trade was conducted through the agency of the Mycenaeans, and involved an interchange of goods between Cyprus and the Syrian and Aegean ports. In 1946 Professor Schaeffer uncovered wall fortifications of about the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries B.C. This is the period of the richest tombs. Soon afterwards decline set in primarily as a result of invasion from Greece and Asia Minor. Then in the twelfth century B.C. a large part of the city was destroyed by fire. Soon after it was rebuilt it was shattered at least twice by earthquake, leading eventually to total abandonment in the eleventh century B.C. The city, all of which is below present ground-level, had a walled perimeter of about 1,200 yards. It covered approximately one square mile, while at the height of its importance its population may have reached the figure of 15,000.
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