Nitovikla
Coordinates: 35 ° 29 ′ 39 ″ N , 34 ° 16 ′ 59 ″ E
Nitovikla (also Nektovikla ) near Korovia (Kuruova) on the Karpas peninsula in northeastern Cyprus is a fortress from the Late Bronze Age , which dates back to 1500 BC. Was built. A total of 22 fortresses of this type are known in the north, east and in the center of the island (as of 2008).
The facility, which was only about 100 m from the sea, consisted of two parts. There was an approximately 400 × 100 to 200 m walled area that ran parallel to the sea, and a smaller fortress that was approximately 40 × 35 m in size, had 2 to 5 m thick walls and what appeared to be towers. This was at the highest point within the large system. The large walled area was apparently undeveloped. The function of this fortress is uncertain, but it can be assumed that it was a refuge for the surrounding villages. It could also be a border fortress that was supposed to secure the political areas of interest between the north and south-east of the island in the late Bronze Age.
The facility was examined and excavated in 1929 by the Swede Erik Sjöqvist .
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literature
- Gunnel Hult: Nitovikla Reconsidered. Medelhavsmuseet Memoir 8, Stockholm 1992 ISBN 91-7192-835-9
Remarks
- ↑ Edgar Peltenburg: Nitovikla and Tell el-Burak: Cypriot mid-second millennium BC forts in a Levantine context , pp 145-157, here: p 145th
- ^ Michael Gareth Brown: Landscapes of Settlement in South-east Cyprus. The Late Bronze Age Origins of a Phoenician Polity. Incorporating the results of fieldwork by the author at Pyla-Kokkinokremos 2007-2009 , thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011, pp. 42-45.