Balkan History

Marko Pijović - Proučavanje identiteta u prošlosti

by Marko Pijović

Life in the Quarter: Glass Finds

by Margherita Ferri

FERRI M. (2008). Life in the Quarter: Glass Finds. In: GELICHI S.. A Town through the Ages: the 2006-2007 Archaeological Project in Stari Bar. p. 59-66, FIRENZE: All'Insegna del Giglio, ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-7814-384-5

Un fragile tesoro: i recipienti in vetro dalle discariche dell’isolato 140.

by Margherita Ferri

FERRI M. (2011). Un fragile tesoro: i recipienti in vetro dalle discariche dell’isolato 140. In: GELICHI SAURO. Analizzare lo spazio, analizzare il tempo. La storia di un isolato di Stari Bar. p. 86-93, FIRENZE: All’insegna del Giglio, ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-7814-525-2

From resurrection to insurrection:'sacred'myths, motifs, and symbols in the Greek War of Independence

by Marios Hatzopoulos

9. «… la cité de Visoi qui moult estoit bone et fort». Zur Geschichte der ostthrakischen Stadt Vize / Bizyē in byzantinischer Zeit

by Andreas Külzer

Kaiser, Zar und Sultan – Das Byzantinische Reich und die Integration Südosteuropas in das Osmanische Reich. Historicum, Zeitschrift für Geschichte [in press]

by Mihailo Popovic

Towards a Mathematical Evaluation of the Significance of the Via Egnatia within the Transport Network of the Historical Region of Macedonia, in: Proceedings “Makedonija niz vekovite”, Skopje [in press]

by Mihailo Popovic

Die Rezeption der Religionsgemeinschaften des Osmanischen Reiches in der west- und mitteleuropäischen Reiseliteratur des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. Prace Historyczne [in press]

by Mihailo Popovic

2012: Naef. P. Voyage à travers un baril de poudre : Guerre et imaginaire touristique à Sarajevo. Via@ - Revue internationale interdisciplinaire de tourisme 1

by Patrick Naef

Traduction en français et en allemand sur le site de la revue

Cet article propose de questionner l’influence d’un conflit récent sur la production d’un imaginaire touristique lié à... more Cet article propose de questionner l’influence d’un conflit récent sur la production d’un imaginaire touristique lié à un lieu, plus précisément à Sarajevo, la capitale de Bosnie-Herzégovine. Cette ville, ainsi que l’ensemble de la région des Balkans, a souvent été assimilée à un baril de poudre, notamment à travers la couverture médiatique du conflit qui a embrasé les Balkans dans les années 90. De plus, certaines productions cinématographiques tendent à créer une image romantique et orientaliste de cette région, l’assimilant en grande partie au feu et au sang. Je démontrerai que cette vision, certes simpliste et réductrice, tend à créer chez certains touristes un imaginaire, voire une fascination teintée d’aventure. Dans ce contexte, les lieux traumatisés par la guerre ou encore les sites symboles de la résistance sont exploités par des acteurs locaux et s’inscrivent peu à peu dans le paysage touristique de la ville et de la région.

Câteva observaţii asupra unor situri eneolitice din zona de nord a Dobrogei

by Florian Mihail

A Man and His Environment, on the Border between Habsburg and Ottoman Empires; Podravina (the River Drava Valley) at Crossroads with Multiple Borders in Early Modern Period

by Hrvoje Petric

Published in Journal Podravina.Vol.4, No. 7, 2005.

This paper shows an interrelation between man and his environment, on the Habsburg-Ottoman imperial borders in early... more This paper shows an interrelation between man and his environment, on the Habsburg-Ottoman imperial borders in early modern period. As an example, we researched borderline areas alongside Drava River on the Habsburg Monarchy side of the border. This region is primarily the river Drava valley, the term ‘Podravina’, ‘Podravina multiborder area’ (region alongside Drava) was chosen. The center of this region is area surrounding the free royal town of Koprivnica, being the Military Frontier stronghold and administrative seat at the same time. This »case stud«y is an example of a man and his environment in border territory oin early modern period. Chronology data focus on 16th and 17th century, when this area was a frontier to both the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires. The paper focuses on borderline character, which influenced both man and his environment.

“La nazione prima del nazionalismo: Paisij Hilendarski e la Istorija Slavenobolgarskaja” [Nation before nationalism: Paisij Hilendarski and the Istorija Slavenobolgarskaja], Europa Orientalis 29 (2010), pp. 225-254

by Francesco Dall'Aglio

Osmanen vs. Mongolen. Die Schlacht bei Ankara 1402. Karfunkel Combat Nr. 8 (2012) 23-26.

by Mihailo Popovic

Fluvial-Aeolian Sands in Croatia. Environmental History Case Study: Djurdjevac Sands (Đurđevački Pijesci)

by Hrvoje Petric

environmental history; Croatian history; early modern history

This paper deals with sand dunes area of fluvial and aeolian origins in South-East Europe, the northwest of... more
This paper deals with sand dunes area of fluvial and aeolian origins in South-East Europe, the northwest of Croatia, nearby the small town of Djurdjevac, due northeast of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, close to the Hungarian state border. These sands cover an area of approximately 1000km2 owing to combined effects of fluvial and aeolian processes during the Quaternary Period. Based on research of aeolian sheet sands on a greater region of Pannonian Valley, we can establish three stages of fluvial and aeolian formation of sand accumulation in Croatia: Stage1: approx. twenty thousand years ago (Würm glacial, the last Ice Age); stage2: Older Holocene; stage3: triggered by man and prolonged well into the Early Modern Period. This paper will deal with this third stage. Based on contemporary level of research, medieval archives do not provide any notice of «open» sands in this area; they might have been covered by humus before the Middle Ages. Under the influence of man, in the Early Modern Period (17th and 18th centuries) connective stems of plants (roots) gradually disappeared. There was aeolian erosion, so the sands reappeared on the surface. This brought up the issue of viable, sustainable development or rather, unsustainable one: is reappearance of Croatian sands (that previously had been under the humus layers) an example of disturbed ecosystem? As we consider the previous ‘coexistence’ of local population here with the sands, it’s logical to assume that early medieval ‘reappearance’ of sand dunes wasn’t just due to anthropogenous factor, but also to climate changes as well? The author leaves a door open to assumptions, that anthropogenous factors here, in the manner that change in economies (and/or new techniques and agrarian methods, as well as introduction of new plants) here influenced creation of «bare» sands, its resurface and move. It took great efforts to reattach these «bare» sands; the efforts put in motion since the late 19th century onwards. The plants that were introduced in the sand zone were quickly adjusting to the new terrain and life on sands. These plants enabled creation of humus substrate in the soil here. Slowly the new fertile lands appeared on the layers of sand, which in the 20th century grew with forest and grass vegetation and various agricultural crops; the sands here were covered various flora and fauna, quite atypical for other regions of Croatia. It’s important to notice how stopping of aeolian sheet layers, that had begun in the 19th century, is now revived and undergoing process until present day, by planting pine trees and spreading pine forests.

The pattern of Findspots of Coins of Damastion - the Clue to Its Location

by Dubravka Ujes Morgan

Proceedings of the XIVth International Numismatic Congress, Glasgow, 2009, ed. by Nicholas Holmes, Glasgow 2011, pp. 487-496.

The position of Damastion, a Greek colony founded by the fugitives from Aegina and Mende shortly after 420 BC... more The position of Damastion, a Greek colony founded by the fugitives from Aegina and Mende shortly after 420 BC somewhere in Illyria near the abundant silver mines (Strabo 7.7.8 and 8.6.16), has still not been established with certainty. An analysis of the pattern of findspots of coins of this town demonstrates a concentration in the area of the rich silver mines of southern Kosovo, indicating that Damastion should be sought somewhere in that region.

CfP - Everlasting Bath: Transnational History of Sauna Culture

by Timo Myllyntaus

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You are welcome to contribute the "Sauna History Session" under the theme "Knowing Users: Social... more .
You are welcome to contribute the "Sauna History Session" under the theme "Knowing Users: Social Demands in Shaping Technology and Designing Products" at the 40th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC (Manchester, UK, 22–28 July 2013). The session will take place as as part of the 24th International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus.

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In hectic modern world, we tend to believe that our way of life is modern and our customs dates from fairly recent times. It is supposed that nearly everything has changed since the Middle Ages, and technological development is regarded to reshuffle our living style completely and force to reject practically all traces to the antiquity. Technology is often considered a mighty enemy of traditions. Nevertheless, there is at least one outstanding exception to this pattern.

While native Americans bathed sweat lodges several millennia ago, steamy bathhouses were at the same time common in entire Europe as well. Still a thousand years ago steam baths were quite common all around the northern hemisphere. Only in the Middle Ages, authorities banned public bathhouses in Central Europe in order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Nevertheless, steamy bathhouses stayed in tact only in sparsely populated eastern peripheries of Europe – from Turkey and Bulgaria to Estonia, Russia and Finland. As the result, this ancient bathing tradition has remained more common in cold and forested Finland than in any other country, and there are almost as many saunas (>2 mill.) as cars: one sauna per two inhabitants. Actually the Finnish sauna has become the common concept for steamy bathhouses although there are considerable cultural and national variations in building constructions and heating technology.

During the past four millennia, building materials, construction techniques and styles of housing have changed several times. These changes have not led to exclude steamy baths from the everyday life of peripheral countries. In contrast, technology has been used to modify physical features of these bath institutions to the current construction conventions and social demands. During millennia and centuries, saunas have changed but they have not vanished. Basic elements of saunas have remained and the pleasure of bathing has been preserved.

Sauna is the case in point how an ancient cultural habit can be persistent in a changing world and technology has been used to preserve a prehistoric custom with constant innovation and modification.

This session will examine and discuss the persistence of sauna culture and the malleability of technology in adapting steam baths to the changing world. Can we find technological determinism or technological momentum in the history of sauna? If there is a path dependence in this case study: is it technological or cultural? The session aims to analyse transnationally the persistence of sauna in a number of countries and if possible in several civilizations. Therefore studies on extinct steam bath cultures are particularly welcome.

Please, contact Timo Myllyntaus (timmyl@utu.fi) and submit a 200 – 400-word abstract of your paper proposal and a one-page CV by Friday 9 March 2012.

Further information at: http://www.icohtec.org/annual-meeting-cfp-2013.html

Karpatyzm leksykalny

by Marek Stachowski

(= Lexical Carpathianism)

Zum Bild des römischen Kaisers Trajan in der byzantinischen Literatur, in: Wiener Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik. Beiträge zum Symposion vierzig Jahre Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien im Gedenken an Herbert Hunger (Wien, 4.-7. Dezember 2002), ed. W. HÖRANDNER, J. KODER, M. A. STASSINOPOULOU (Byzantina et Neograeca Vindobonensia 24). Wien 2004, 337-347.

by Mihailo Popovic

Zusammenfassend ist festzustellen, daß das Bild des römischen Kaisers Trajan in der byzantinischen Literatur auf der... more Zusammenfassend ist festzustellen, daß das Bild des römischen Kaisers Trajan in der byzantinischen Literatur auf der Überlieferung der Antike basiert, und sich die Ausführungen einiger byzantinischer Autoren, deren Schwerpunkt eindeutig im Zeitraum des 6. bis 12. Jahrhunderts liegt, aus diesem Grunde sehr ähneln. Neben diesen Aspekten zur Person Trajans ist in einem einzigen Fall – nämlich bei Johannes Tzetzes im 12. Jahrhundert – die Vermengung historischer und mythologischer Elemente in Form der antiken Midassage zu beobachten, wodurch dem römischen Kaiser Bocksohren erwachsen sind. Besagtes Bild erscheint nicht nur im griechischen Raum, sondern auch in Südosteuropa und weltweit und hat im Bereich Südosteuropas insofern eine Erweiterung erfahren, als es durch Elemente der slavischen Mythologie bereichert wurde.
Ein Desiderat besteht in der Klärung der Abhängigkeit aller einschlägigen Zitate in der byzantinischen Literatur zur Person des römischen Kaisers Trajan von antiken Vorbildern, der Interaktion der byzantinischen Zitate untereinander und schließlich ihrer Wirkung auf die Geistes- und Kulturwelt der Nachbarvölker des Byzantinischen Reiches.

RAILWAYS, REAGIONS AND THE URBAN NETWORK IN THE BALKANS DURING A CENTURY OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 1900 2000

by kaloyan Stanev

Stanev, Kaloyan, Railways, regions and the urban network in the Balkans during a century of political transformations 1900-2000, Etudes Balkaniques, XLVII, 2011, No 1, 5-37

Political instability and regional transformations in the Balkans. Railways, population and socio-economic indicators of uneven regional development: 1880- …

by kaloyan Stanev