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Slav outposts in Central European history : the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs
\"While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany and Western Poland. This book examines the decline and gradual erosion of the Wends from the time when they occupied all the land between the River Elbe and the River Vistula around 800 AD to the present, where they still survive in tiny enclaves south of Berlin (the Wends and Sorbs) and west of Danzig (the Kashubs). Slav Outposts in Central European History--which also includes numerous images and maps--puts the story of the Wends, the Sorbs and the Kashubs in a wider European context in order to further sophisticate our understanding of how ethnic groups, societies, confessions and states have flourished or floundered in the region. It is an important book for all students and scholars of central European history and the history of European peoples and states more generally\"--From publisher's website.
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With Their Backs to the Mountains
With Their Backs to the Mountains is the history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus’, located in the heart of central Europe. A little over 100,000 Carpatho-Rusyns are registered in official censuses but their number could be as high as 1,000,000, the greater part living in Ukraine and Slovakia. The majority of the diaspora—nearly 600,000—lives in the US. At present, when it is fashionable to speak of nationalities as “imagined communities” created by intellectuals or elites who may or may not live in the historic homeland, Carpatho-Rusyns provide an ideal example of a people made—or some would say still being made—before our very eyes. The book traces the evolution of Carpathian Rus’ from earliest prehistoric times to the present, and the complex manner in which a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn people, since the mid-nineteenth century, came into being, disappeared, and then re-appeared in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe. To help guide the reader further there are 39 text inserts, 34 detailed maps, plus an annotated discussion of relevant books, chapters, and journal articles.
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Europe and the Islamic world
Europe and the Islamic Worldsheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a \"clash of civilizations\" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent historians bring to life the complex and tumultuous relations between Genoans and Tunisians, Alexandrians and the people of Constantinople, Catalans and Maghrebis--the myriad groups and individuals whose stories reflect the common cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage of Europe and Islam.
Since the seventh century, when the armies of Constantinople and Medina fought for control of Syria and Palestine, there has been ongoing contact between the Muslim world and the West. This sweeping history vividly recounts the wars and the crusades, the alliances and diplomacy, commerce and the slave trade, technology transfers, and the intellectual and artistic exchanges. Here readers are given an unparalleled introduction to key periods and events, including the Muslim conquests, the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the commercial revolution of the medieval Mediterranean, the intellectual and cultural achievements of Muslim Spain, the crusades and Spanish reconquest, the rise of the Ottomans and their conquest of a third of Europe, European colonization and decolonization, and the challenges and promise of this entwined legacy today.
As provocative as it is groundbreaking, this book describes this shared history in all its richness and diversity, revealing how ongoing encounters between Europe and Islam have profoundly shaped both.
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Some new views on rounding off borders of the Loka Seigneury
The contribution discusses four deeds of gift by the ruler to the bishopric of Freising in Carniola and reinterprets the territorial framework of respective bestowals. In June of 973, the bishopric thus did not get hold of the northern part of the valley Selska dolina and the western border remained in the area of Ratitovec, the area between Rakitovec and the watershed of the valleys Selska dolina and Baska dolina was acquired in November of the same year. A charter issued in 989 states that a part of the estate that was granted by means of D. O. II , No.66 is to be taken away and communicates that a new border between the bishopric's estate and that of Bernhard is to be set up, thus expanding the territory by including the western part of the valley Poljanska dolina. In the beginning of the 11th century, the Seigneury of Loka was rounded off with the northern part of the valley Selska dolina and the area above Prase as far as Jama. //ABSTRACT IN SLOVENE: Prispevek obravnava stiri vladarske darovnice freisinski skofiji na Kranjskem in na novo interpretira ozemeljski okvir posamezne podelitve. Junija leta 973 tako skofiji ne pripade severni del Selske doline ter se zahodna meja ustavi na ratitovskem obmocju, od tu do razvodja med Selsko in Basko dolino pa pridobi novembra istega leta. Leta 989 izstavljena listina navaja, da se ji del imetja, podeljen z D. O. II , st. 66, odvzema, ter sporoca, da se vzpostavi nova meja med skofijsko in Bernhardovo posestjo, s cimer se ozemlje poveca za zahodni del Poljanske doline. Na zacetku 11. stoletja se losko gospostvo zaokrozi s severnim delom Selske doline ter predelom nad Prasami do Jame.
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When the Church began speaking Slavic. On the backgrounds of christianization in Carantania and Pannonia
Carantanians were the first Slavic people to be Christianized and missionaries were faced with a thoroughly new field of work. Thus missionaries both in Carantania and Pannonia encountered substantial difficulties in their work, the adoption of a new religion was an enormous challenge also for gentile-religious societies. The paper draws attention to the difficulties and strategies of setting up linguistic communication, which is a prerequisite for Christianization, the importance of Christianization from above, and the importance of missionaries arriving as guests rather than as intruders. The paper discusses the integrating role of Christianity along with societal changes that were associated with the arrival of Christianity in gentile-religious environments. //ABSTRACT IN SLOVENE: Karantanci so bili prvo slovansko ljudstvo, ki je bilo pokristjanjeno in za misijonarje se je odprlo povsem novo polje delovanja. Misijonarji so se tako v Karantaniji kot v Panoniji srecevali z velikimi tezavami pri svojem delu, sprejem nove vere pa je bil enormen izziv tudi za gentilnoreligiozne druzbe. Razprava opozarja na tezave in strategije pri vzpostavljanju jezikovne komunikacije, ki je predpogoj pokristjanjevanja, na pomen pokristjanjevanja od zgoraj, kot tudi na pomen, da so prisli misijonarji kot gostje, in ne vsiljivci. Obravnavana je integracijska vloga krscanstva, kot tudi druzbene spremembe, ki so bile zvezane s prihodom krscanstva v gentilnoreligiozna okolja.
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The Czechs : and the lands of the Bohemian crown
In this chronicle of a fascinating people, Hugh Agnew offers a single-volume survey of Czech history, providing an introduction to its major themes and contours. Agnew presents a detailed chronology of the region, from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entrance into the European Union. Taking into account both Western and Marxist insights—as well as the input of the newest generation of Czech historians—he furnishes a comprehensive fusion of three different aspects of Czech history: a political-diplomatic view, a social-economic view, and a cultural-intellectual view.
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Afgantsy
A timely and eye-opening account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan (1979-89), from the high politics of the Kremlin to the lonely Russian conscripts in remote mountain outposts.
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Martyrdom for the Nation. The Slavic Balkans in the Painting of the Nineteenth Century
In the beginning was Delacroix. He gave expression to Greece's striving for independence. After that, artists from East Central Europe directed their interest to the Balkans. They dedicated numerous pictures to the anti-Ottoman uprisings of the south Slavic peoples & made their cause well-known. In doing so, they fell back on archetypical motifs of occidental tradition, thus creating the narrative of national martyrdom & stereotypes about the Balkans. With their oeuvre, they influenced the self-perception of the Slavs & facilitated their nation-building. At the same time, the artists implicitly criticized political conditions at home & expressed their own national ambitions. Adapted from the source document.
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Communism and the Slavic idea 1920-1946. From the Communist Balkan Federation to the All-Slavic Committee
After the First World War, the Slavic idea, in a variety of forms, played a role in concepts of inter- & intra-state order formulated by the Communist parties of East Central & Southeastern Europe. In the 1930s, the Soviet Union occasionally deployed the Slavic idea to legitimize its foreign policy interests. After Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, Communist & Slavic ideology nearly melded into one. After the Sovietization of East Central Europe & the break with Tito in Yugoslavia, Moscow tossed the Slavic idea overboard. Adapted from the source document.
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