In this volume the Byzantine provinces of Bithynia and Hellespont are treated. They comprise the whole northwest of Asia Minor. The region is especially important because of its position across from the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The shores opposite Constantinople were considered its suburbs, where the emperors and the aristocracy built their palaces and villas and founded many monasteries and churches. Products of agriculture from Bithynia, to a lesser part also from Hellespont,...

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...

Volume 11 of the series “Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB)” deals with the historical geography of the Southern part of the region, which since Antiquity is known as Macedonia. The region is situated in Northern Greece between Epirus, Thessaly and Thrace, which have been researched and published in the previous volumes 1, 3 and 6 of the TIB. The Northern part of the historical region of Macedonia (“Macedonia, Northern Part”) is written by Mihailo Popović as forthcoming volume TIB 16, which will...

The 10th volume of TABULA IMPERII BYZANTINI deals with the historical geography of the northern Aegean, the real Aigaion Pelagos, in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (including the first centuries of Modern Times, when Genoese maritime power dominated the region and its islands). The detailed introduction emphasizes the maritime character of the Byzantine Empire and deals with geography and climate, history (church history included), economy and traffic as well as with ecistic and demographic...

The internationally long awaited publication of TIB Lykien und Pamphylien is now available in three parts, in two text volumes and one picture volume. In more than one thousand individual location entries and presentations (lemmata), enriched by documentary illustrations and maps, the historical topography and geography of south-west Turkey – one of the richest landscapes of the antique and medieval world cultural heritage – have been brought together for the very first time. Nowhere else in...