The Via Militaris in Transition: From Late Rome to the Crusades

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. Bordering and Mobility as an Approach to the History of the Balkan Route 1
5. The Via Militaris in Transition: From Late Rome to the Crusades 21
6. Continuity of Travel and Transport Infrastructures from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The Case of Via Militaris in the Morava and Nišava Regions 53
7. Transforming the Landscape of the Constantinople Road in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Section Niš–Dragoman) 81
8. The Istanbul–Belgrade Route in the Ottoman Empire: Continuity and Discontinuity of an Imperial Mobility Space 103
9. Cities along the Route: Plovdiv Becoming “Modern” at the End of the Nineteenth Century 121
10. Tsaribrod, a Dot on the Line: A Microhistorical Approach to Societal Change along the Route in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 139
11. Park ve Restoran: About Oblivion, Obstinate Mobility and Temporary Infrastructures on the Road 183
12. Voices of the Via Egnatia: Deliberating Migratory Pull-Factors along the Roman Road in the Western Balkans 201
13. Balkan Transit: Conclusion and Outlook 229
14. List of Contributors 235
15. Index 237