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The Balkan Route - Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput (Hardcover)
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The Balkan Route - Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput (Hardcover)
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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 as the Ottomans to rule their
Balkan territories. In the nineteenth century, the road was
upgraded to a railroad and, most recently, to a motorway. The
contributions in this volume focus on the period from the Middle
Ages to the present day. They explore the various transformations
of the route as well as its transformative role for the cities and
regions along its course. This not only concerns the political
function of the route to project the power of the successive
empires. Also the historical actors such as merchants, travelling
diplomats, Turkish guest workers or Middle Eastern refugees
together with the various social, economic and cultural effects of
their mobility are in the focus of attention. The overall aim is to
gain a deeper understanding of Southeast Europe by foregrounding
historical continuities and disruptions from a long-term
perspective and by bringing into dialogue different national and
regional approaches.
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