Seasides of Byzantium : harbours and anchorages of a Mediterranean Empire

The conference 'Seasides of Byzantium : Harbours and anchorages of a Mediterranean empire', from which the papers collected in the present volume emerged, took place in Athens in 2017 as part of a cooperation between the DFG-funded Special Research Programme (SPP-1630) 'Harbours from the Roman period to the Middle Ages' and the National Hellenic Research Foundation. It united historians, archaeologists and geoarchaeologists to explore harbours and anchorages as core maritime infrastructure to the Late Roman and Byzantine Empire. General phenomena such as the organisation of the Byzantine navy and its operations or lighthouses are discussed in this volume as well as new geoarchaeological research methodologies in harbour archaeology. Most contributions in the present volume examine case studies for the most important maritime core region of the Byzantine Empire, the Aegean. This sea connected the remaining provinces of the empire in Southeastern Europe and Asia Minor after the loss of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa to the Arabs in the 7th century A.D. In addition to technical and geographical aspect, the studies in this volume make clear that we need to explore more and more the social embedding of the seasides of Byzantium to understand their dynamics in all their complexity Cover Titelei Contents Falko Daim: Preface Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, with Alkiviadis Ginalis: Introduction: Seasides of Byzantium and Maritime Dynamics in the Aegean Sea Sophia Akrivopoulou: The Hellenistic Harbour of Thessaloniki and the Ekklēsiastikē Skala Ilias Anagnostakis: Methone on the Peloponnese: a Naval Basewithout a Harbour? In Search of the Byzantine Port in Historical Sources Aikaterini Delaporta and Flora Karagianni: Depictions of the Byzantine Harbours of Constantinople in Early Maps and Engravings Dimitar V. Dimitrov: The Harbour of Medieval Sozopol Alkiviadis Ginalis: Reassessing the Harbour of Anthedon Jean-Philippe Goiran, Winnie May Chan, Christophe Benech, Quentin Vitale, Nicholas Riddick, Hugo Delile, Ferréol Salomon, Stoil Chapkanski, Christine Oberlin, Gilles Brocard, Agathe Lisé-Pronovost and Cécile Vittori: Developments in Geoarchaeological Research, Methodologies and Applications in Harbour Maritime Archaeology Eleonora Kountoura Galaki: A Light in the Darkness: Monastery Lighthouses in the Aegean Sea and Surrounding Coastal Regions Andreas Külzer: Harbours, Landing Places and Communication Routes in North-Western Anatolia. The Gulf of Adramyttium (Edremit körfezi) in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Times Maria Leontsini, Eleni Manolessou, Angeliki Panopoulou: Harbours and Anchorages in Corinthiaand Argolis (North-Eastern Peloponnese) from the Early to the Middle Byzantine Period Katerina Manoussou-Ntella: Byzantine Rhodes. The Evolution of a Fortified Harbour-city in the Eastern Mediterranean (4th to 12th c.) Marina Papadimitriou: The Harbour of Piraeus in Late Antiquity. New Archaeological Evidence Max Ritter: Naval bases, Arsenals, Aplekta: Logistics and Commands of the Byzantine Navy (7th-12th c.) Thomas Schmidts: Fortifying Harbour Cities on the Southern Thracian Coast in the Early Byzantine Era – Case Studies on Ainos and Anastasioupolis Grigori Simeonov: The Region of the Danube Delta in the7th to 10th Century and the Case of theso-called Lykostomion Maritime Province List of Contributors and Editors Sigles Used List of Publications of the Project »Harbours and landing placeson the Balkan coasts of the Byzantine Empire (4th to 12th centuries)« Rückcover