The Balkan Route Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput

This volume approaches the topic of mobility in Southeast Europe by offering the first detailed historical study of the land route connecting Istanbul with Belgrade. After this route that diagonally crosses Southeast Europe had been established in Roman times, it was as important for the Byzantines...

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Other Authors: Riedler, Florian Stefanov, Nenad (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter 2021, ©2021
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Bordering and Mobility as an Approach to the History of the Balkan Route
  • The Via Militaris in Transition: From Late Rome to the Crusades
  • Continuity of Travel and Transport Infrastructures from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The Case of Via Militaris in the Morava and Nišava Regions
  • Transforming the Landscape of the Constantinople Road in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Section Niš-Dragoman)
  • The Istanbul-Belgrade Route in the Ottoman Empire: Continuity and Discontinuity of an Imperial Mobility Space
  • Cities along the Route: Plovdiv Becoming "Modern" at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  • Tsaribrod, a Dot on the Line: A Microhistorical Approach to Societal Change along the Route in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Park ve Restoran: About Oblivion, Obstinate Mobility and Temporary Infrastructures on the Road
  • Voices of the Via Egnatia: Deliberating Migratory Pull-Factors along the Roman Road in the Western Balkans
  • Balkan Transit: Conclusion and Outlook