Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
76. Türkiye Jeoloji Kurultayı, Ankara, Türkiye, 15 - 19 Nisan 2024, ss.345
Strabo, who is known as the father of geography in the world and
known by almost all geologists and archaeologists, as an Anatolian he
was born in Amasya, which is most commonly accepted date in 64 BC.
Based on Strabo's characteristic of being an Anatolian, the year 2024
was adopted and accepted as the Year of Strabo by the JEMIRKO in
reference to the 2000th year of his death in 24 AD.
Strabo's most important giant work, as it is known, is Geography
which is cover 17 volumes books and covering almost the entire known
Earth at that time. This work includes Anatolia to a significant extent,
from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to India in the east, from Ireland
and Russia in the north, and bordered Libya, North Africa and the
Arabian Peninsula in the south.
While the first 2 volumes of this giant work introduced on the
definition, history and mathematics of Geography, the 3rd volume
focuses mainly on the Iberian Peninsula, the 4th volume generally on
Ireland, Britain and its islands, the 5th and 6th volumes related on Italy
and Sicily, and the 7th volume focuses on Northern, Eastern and
Central Europe. The 8th and 9th books concentrate on the Greek
mainland, the 10th volume focuses on the Greek islands, and the 11th
book introduce mainly on Russia, the Caucasus, the Southern Caspian
Basin and Central Asia respectively Strabon start to promote Anatolia
in his 12th book. The 13th volume of his book covers the Northern and
Central Aegean, and the 14th generally implicates the Eastern
Mediterranean Basin. The last 3 volumes of Strabo's work deal with
Iran, India, the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa in general,
respectively.
In this abstract, first of all, a brief introduction of the Year of Strabo
2024 will be made, and information about the scientific activities
planned to be held during this year will be shared. Afterwards, maps
prepared in the perspective of the narrative route of the areas covered
by Strabo's 12th, 13th and 14th books, in which he especially
introduces Anatolian Geography, will be shared for the first time.
Finally, Strabo's special contributions to geological topics such as
rocks/stones, mines, earthquakes and volcanic events or sites, which
he mentioned in Anatolia, will be briefly mentioned through some
examples.