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The Arab geographers were al-Masudhi and Ibn Khurdadbeh. See the entry for Wadi Salamun in Friederich Hild and Marcell Restle, Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia und Lykandos) (Vienna: Verlag de Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschafte, 1981), pp. 269–270.

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Endnote 5 - Monasteries?

J.-C. Cheynet, Pouvoirs et Contestations à Byzance 963–1210 (Paris: Sorbonne, Centre de recherches d’histoire et de civilisation byzantines, 1990).

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See Leo the Deacon, Historiae, Patrologia Graeca, 117, 713; Ibn Hawqal, Configuration de la terre, trans. Johannes H. Kramers and G. Wiet, vol. 1 (Paris: Commission internationale pour la traduction des chefs-d’oeuvre, 1964), p. 194; and Mathews and Daskalakis-Mathews, “Islamic-Style Mansions,” p. 296.

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Endnote 3 - Monasteries?

Robert Ousterhout, “Historical Design in the Environment: An Examination of a Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia,” in Design for the Environment: The Interdisciplinary Challenge (Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1995), pp. 13–19.

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Endnote 2 - Monasteries?

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Endnote 1 - Monasteries?

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Endnote 6 - Earliest Appearance of Abbreviation for the Israelite God

The suggestion of G. Polak (see Lauterbach, “Substitutes for the Tetragrammaton,” p. 49, n. 24) that the first yod is the first letter of YHWH and the second yod is the last letter of Adonai is pure speculation.