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Photo of the Week

June 28, 2009

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The last village. Ikaria, Greece

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Photo of the Week

June 21, 2009

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Beyond here lies nothing. Georgian Military Highway, Georgia

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Exploring Byzantine Cartographies: Ancient Science, Christian Cosmology, and Geopolitics in Byzantine Imperial Mapping

June 14, 2009

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By Alex G. Papadopoulos, Ph.D. Department of Geography DePaul University, Chicago This short paper on Byzantine maps and geographic science was born out of a conversation with Christopher Deliso, director of Balkanalysis.com. We agreed that there is a need to look at southeastern Europe – the Balkans – from a spatial (geographical) analytical perspective. Our [...]

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Photo of the Week

June 14, 2009

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Everybody loves a military parade. Istanbul, Turkey

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Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941

June 14, 2009

Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941 By Ljiljana Blagojevic MIT Press (2003), 300 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Architecture has long commanded public attention in the Balkans. Swedish diplomats lament the low-quality granite used not long ago to create public thoroughfares in Kosovo €“ itself an experiment in building €“ and [...]

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Emerging Water Industries in Greece

June 14, 2009

By Ioannis Michaletos* Water management is attracting the attention of businessmen in Greece, especially when it is related to the water cycle and energy production. Dams, water transmission pipelines, water depots, and seawater desalination plants are all included in the five-year plan that the Karamanlis administration has relayed recently to the press, as a plan [...]

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Photo of the Week

June 7, 2009

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Mortal combat. Heracleia, Macedonia

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