Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region

This handbook provides an overview on relevant structural features from a cultural-historical perspective and thereby examines to what extent the Black Sea region constitutes a historical meso-region "sui generis". The first introductory chapter is dedicated to the concept of the area as a historical meso-region. The second chapter gives a chronological overview on the history of the area from ancient until present times. The following three chapters are dedicated to a particular structural feature each: Chapter 3 covers ideas and identities, chapter 2 mobility and transfers, and chapter 3 deals with violence, conflict and conflict resolution. The temporal focus in these three chapters is on the modern period, but where appropriate also earlier developments will be considered. In geographical terms, each subchapter envisages the whole Black Sea region, certain subregions are covered more in detail according to the specialization of the specific authors. Particular attention is paid to phenomena and developments which connect the different shores of the Black Sea and present a unifying characteristic of the region.

N. Bumann, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, K. Jobst, Universität Wien, S. Rohdewald und S. Troebst, Universität Leipzig.

1. Introduction - The Black Sea area as a "historical region" Stefan Troebst - "Black Sea World" - The Black Sea as a sphere of circulation Eyü Överen - The Black Sea region as a natural space Jörg Stadelbauer 2. Chronological Overview - Antiquity David Braund - Byzantium, Khazars, the Golden Horde and others Stefan Albrecht - The Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, Poland-Lithuania, Persia and others - Northern Black Sea area Dariusz Ködziejczyk - Southern Black Sea area Kenan -an - The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire etc. Kerstin Jobst - Interwar Period until World War II Adrian Brisku - Era of bloc confrontation and its dissolution Etienne Peyrat 3. Ideas and Identities - Regional concepts Zaur Gasimov - Nation Building - Northern Black Sea area Dennis Dierks - Southern Black Sea area Elke Hartmann - Religious Identities - Religious developments in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (4th- 15th centuries) Johannes Preiser-Kapeller - Christianity Nikolas Pissis, Stefan Rohdewald - Islam and Judaism Hannah Müler-Sommerfeld - Memory spaces - Northern Black Sea area Liliya Berezhnaya - Southern Black Sea area Nicole Kançl-Ferrari - Myths and legends Zaal Andronikashvili - Literature - (Not only) Russian Literature on the Topic of the Northern Black Sea Area Helena Ulbrechtová, Siegfried Ulbrecht - Literature on the Black Sea in the Southern Black Sea Area Mehmet Fatih Uslu (To be confirmed.) - Georgian Literature on the Black Sea Zaal Andronikashvili (To be confirmed.) - 4. Mobility and Transfers - Migration Istvá Vááy and Andrew Robarts - Slavery Christoph Witzenrath - Travelling and tourism in the Black Sea Region (approx. 1500 until present times) Yavuz Köe - The Formation of the Black Sea Economy (late 18th- 19th centuries) Gelina Harlaftis, Alexandra Papadopoulou - Education and scholarship (18th- 21st centuries) Dominik Gutmeyr - Transport technologies and infrastructure Florian Riedler and Reinhard Nachtigal 5. Violence, Conflict and Conflict Resolution - Pirats and Bandits Albrecht Fuess and Arkadiusz Blaszczyk - Naval History Tuncay Zorlu - Crimean War (1853-1856) Mara Kozelsky - The Eastern Question Dietmar Müler, Adamantios Skordos - World War I Onur --ç - Ethnic violence and displacement in the context of World War I Mihran Dabag - World War II Onur --ç - Holocaust/Shoah Mariana Hausleitner - Deportations in the context of World War II Rudolf A. Mark - Territorial conflict after 1989 (Abkhazia, Crimea, South Ossetia, Transnistria) Jan Zofka