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A ocupação romana do Algarve : estudo do povoamento e economia do Algarve central e oriental no período romano
| Resumo: | The present dissertation researches and analyses the economic rythms and patterns in the Roman towns of Ossonoba (Faro), Balsa (Quinta de Torre de Ares) and Baesuri (Castelo de Castro Marim) in southern Portugal, from the 2nd century bC until the 7th century AD. It seeks to determine the evolution of the imports and consumption pattern and to analyse different aspects of the agricultural and industrial production in a local and regional extent, based on very diversified sets of sources such as the imported fine table ware and foodstuff transported in amphorae, without forgetting the critical reading of literary sources and of both epigraphic and numismatic data. The imports pattern of the three urban centers are compared among themselves in such a way as to determine the commercial dynamic and economic evolution of the today's Algarve. We also seek to provide comparisons with other regions, seeking to integrate southern Lusitania in the broader context (economic, politic and cultural) of the inter provincial relations during the Roman period. This study also allows for a better understanding of the specific context of the importations of each phase of the Roman period in each town. It contributes to the knowledge and the discussion of the political and administrative framework of central and eastern Algarve. Epigraphic data had already stressed the relevance of Ossonoba during Augustus reign, but towns like Balsa and Baesuri also knew intense activity during the second half and the end of the 1st century AD. These towns were fully integrated in the established commercial routes that were based in the port of Gadir and were, as observed in previous periods, they were strongly integrated in the economy of the neighbour Baetican province. This integration will only be sligtly modified in Late Roman period by the increase of local and regional lusitanian production as well as the North African imports. |
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| Autores principais: | Viegas, Catarina |
| Assunto: | Teses de doutoramento - 2009 |
| Ano: | 2009 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | The present dissertation researches and analyses the economic rythms and patterns in the Roman towns of Ossonoba (Faro), Balsa (Quinta de Torre de Ares) and Baesuri (Castelo de Castro Marim) in southern Portugal, from the 2nd century bC until the 7th century AD. It seeks to determine the evolution of the imports and consumption pattern and to analyse different aspects of the agricultural and industrial production in a local and regional extent, based on very diversified sets of sources such as the imported fine table ware and foodstuff transported in amphorae, without forgetting the critical reading of literary sources and of both epigraphic and numismatic data. The imports pattern of the three urban centers are compared among themselves in such a way as to determine the commercial dynamic and economic evolution of the today's Algarve. We also seek to provide comparisons with other regions, seeking to integrate southern Lusitania in the broader context (economic, politic and cultural) of the inter provincial relations during the Roman period. This study also allows for a better understanding of the specific context of the importations of each phase of the Roman period in each town. It contributes to the knowledge and the discussion of the political and administrative framework of central and eastern Algarve. Epigraphic data had already stressed the relevance of Ossonoba during Augustus reign, but towns like Balsa and Baesuri also knew intense activity during the second half and the end of the 1st century AD. These towns were fully integrated in the established commercial routes that were based in the port of Gadir and were, as observed in previous periods, they were strongly integrated in the economy of the neighbour Baetican province. This integration will only be sligtly modified in Late Roman period by the increase of local and regional lusitanian production as well as the North African imports. |
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