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Photo of the Week

28 June 2009

The last village. Ikaria, Greece

Photo of the Week

21 June 2009

Beyond here lies nothing. Georgian Military Highway, Georgia

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

14 June 2009

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 understanding of the [...]

Photo of the Week

14 June 2009

Everybody loves a military parade. Istanbul, Turkey

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

14 June 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 organized debates are sparked [...]

Emerging Water Industries in Greece

14 June 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 to [...]

Photo of the Week

7 June 2009

Mortal combat. Heracleia, Macedonia


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