Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region

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