The 12th volume of Tabula Imperii Byzantini deals with the historical geography of Eastern Thrace in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. As the European hinterland of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire for more than thousand years, the region was one of the most significant landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Bordering on the Aegean in the west, the Sea of Marmara in the south and the Black Sea in the east the area is exposed to different climatic influences and shows a notable regional variety. Prominent places of Eastern Thrace are Constantinople with its suburbs and the Bosphorus, mount Ganos the "holy mountain" (Isiklar Dagi), the peninsula of Chersone-sos and the Istranca mountain with its numerous nameless fortresses. The introduction of the volume deals with geography and climate, with history, traffic-routes and economy. Furthermore, an alphabetical catalogue offers more than 700 entries of settlements, place-names, fortresses, churches etc. from late Antiquity and Byzantine times; it was composed by using GIS, written, archaeological and toponymical sources. The main map of Eastern Thrace is drawn to a scale of 1:800,000, a more detailed map shows the Golden Horn and the European shore of the Bosphorus to a scale of 1:100,000. The volume adjoins to TIB 6 "Thrace" by P. Soustal and TIB 10 "The Northern Aegean" by J. Koder, P. Soustal and A. Koder.

1981, 326 Seiten, 2 Karten, 30x21 cm, broschiert

This survey covers the islands of the North Aegean; Chios, Lesbos, Lemnos, Samothrace, Thasos, Skyros, Tenedos, Eustratios and Imbros and its neighbours. It starts as usual with explanations of the terminology used, and descriptions of the geography and climate of the region. There follows an exploration of historical and administrative development, the Church, economy, traffic routes, and settlement and population, after which comes the gazetteer proper, describing Byzantine-period sites alphabetically, including their history, surviving remains and bibliography.

The intensive exchange of letters between 1912 and 1946 between the physicist Lise Meiner, born in Vienna in 1878, and the botanist Elisabeth Schiemann, born in 1881 and raised in Berlin, cannot be seen merely as the documentation of a friendship between two highly gifted scientists. In many passages, the letters are also an important contemporary document. During WWI, Lise Meitner was an X-ray nurse and helped in operating rooms. In 1938, she became a refugee fleeing Hitler's persecution of the Jews and later lived in Stockholm. Following 1933, Elisabeth Schiemann resisted the regime as well as she could, hiding Jewish friends, finding escape routes, and demanding that the church provide shelter for fellow Jewish citizens. The correspondence between the two women contains only sporadic references to their research. Two introductory biographies reveal a number of similarities between them: both came from well-educated families, both had siblings with whom they maintained close contact throughout their lives, at the beginning of their careers both worked with a male scientist, neither married. Short commentaries provide information about contemporary events and the persons mentioned. Passages from letters to and from other correspondence partners of Lise Meitner are also included. Illustrated with a number of photographs. German text.