ABSTRACT
This chapter considers secondary towns, small-sized settlements, and military outposts, including Seh Qubba, Bezabde, and Tell Tuneinir. It explores the characteristics of these sites in order to understand their role within the military, political, and economic control of the region at the height of imperial confrontation in North Mesopotamia. Military architecture in Mesopotamia must also be considered within the wider political and historical context of the Roman East and the Roman world in general. Besides the Sinjar–Tigris line, another crucial area for the Roman control of Mesopotamia is the Jaghjagh basin, which also includes, in its uppermost part, the provincial capital of Nisibis. The steppe land that lies between the Singara–Ain Sinu line and Hatra in the south has received attention by the scholars, mostly in connection with the identification of possible tracks linking the Sinjar area to Hatra.
