[ التراث المعماري المدني بمدينة آني الأرمينية ]

Volume 18, Issue 4, December 2016, Pages 1260–1279

 

Mahmoud Ahmed Darwish<sup>1

1</sup> Professor of Islamic Archaeology, Faculty of Arts - Minia University, Egypt

Original language: Arabic

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Abstract

Ani ruins located near the border between Turkey and Armenia on the west bank of the River Akhuryan, the military position in the first place, and is - according to the topography of the region Alleha- built on an elevated area planning to take a triangle, its base in the south, It seems that the choice was deliberate according to the great defense of the city. The importance of Ani due to being a trading center on the Silk towards Anatolia, and control through a crossroads for trade caravans between Byzantium and Persia, Syria and Central Asia, as one of the Armenian cities that retains many of the buildings of the Islamic character in terms of architectural planning and architectural elements and artistic. Armenia has been affected by Islamic tradition since the income of the Muslims in the Umayyad era during the reign of Walid bin Abdul Malik, and it was the results of the stability of the Arab presence seen in the Abbasid prosperous architect, and she continued renovations and construction of many buildings and facilities operations, helping to move the architectural influences of the Abbasid and spread on throughout Armenia, where he built mosques, palaces and walls with towers, markets, hotels, khans and baths. Architectural influences Seljuk moved to groves Annie especially when Alp Arslan renew groves city private fences and gates, in (465 AH) Al-shdaddein (Kurdish) strain and purchasing (1072 m) of the city, and who they adopted the religious tolerance policy toward the city's population of Christians. The research aims to highlight the civil architectural heritage of the city of Annie, Kalqsour which include: Palace castle and palace northwest city (Sultan Galatasaray), fences and gates, which include: Duane Gate and Lion Gate (Alp Arslan), these buildings with Islamic influences, and the resolution of the controversy over real history of the groves, and to highlight the planning and architectural and artistic elements of Islamic influences that have left traces on the Seljuk architecture later. Spin research questions about the importance of civic buildings Islamic Annie city, consisting of palaces and fortifications of war, and what analytical elements and the comparison was based on them, along with Alaiwana planning emergence of inertial affected by the traditions of the Abbasid architecture, as fences and gates followed the same architectural planning and architectural elements of the walls and towers of the Abbasid Balastgamat. Hence, the researcher followed the descriptive and analytical approach to the study of buildings contained research, as well as the comparative method with buildings that went on the same layout and architectural elements and decorative.

Author Keywords: Annie, Armenia, palaces, fences, Davin gate, Lion Gate, Alshdaddein, Alp Arslan.