Abstract:

The history of the ancient town of Satala, located in the northeastern part of Anadolu, goes to the Iron Age; its main importance has gained during the Roman Empire. The city, located in a strategic location, where the roads in the east of the Black Sea crossed, was established a garnison by placing the XVI Flavia Company legion in the Roman era. During the period of Hadrianus, the emperor rearranged the eastern borders, and the XV Apollinaris legion was placed in the city. With this legion, the city has risen to an important position in the defense of Rome as one of the most important military bases of the Roman Empire in the east; it has become the main base used in the flights to the east. by M.S. In 256 Satala was captured by the Sasani army under the command of Shapur I and remained under the Sasani rule for up to two years. by M.S. In 529 after the Persians crossed the eastern border, Emperor Justinianus rebuilt the castle in the city of Satala. The 7. The city, which is predicted to continue its military function until the Arab flows of the century, became a bishop's center during the Byzantine period and this mission was made by M.S. It continued until 1256. 19th. The first research in the city with the head of a bronze statue located in the century in Satala was carried out in 1874 by Alfred Biliotti, the British Console of Trabzon. After a short-term excavation in the city's garnison castle, the researcher F. Cumont, Tim Mitford, Ch.S. Research and publications on Satala have been conducted by researchers such as Lightfoot and Suleyman Çiğdem. According to the permission received from the Republic of Turkey, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in the summer of 2016 the surface research carried out in the city of the stone works inventory was removed; in the castle, on the belt and in the ancient pool architectural examinations and rolling works were carried out; in the interior of the legion castle and on the belt a georadar (GPR) work was carried out. The width of the ancient city, the nature of the structures in the city and the first results of the work on the identification of the architecture within the legion castle will be presented in this work.