Full Description
In Kosovo: History in Maps, the story of Kosovo's history is told through maps which take us through space and time, from antiquity to the present day. This book delineates the geographical reality of Kosovo in different contexts, namely war space, historical space, travel space, and sacred space. Moreover, Kosovo: History in Maps examines the diffusion of geographical knowledge and maps on Kosovo, contributing to the growing historiography on the circulation of knowledge and the translation of culture.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
1 Some Historiographical Remarks
2 The Notion of Kosovo throughout History - from Campus Merulae to Nation State
3 Geographic Features of Kosovo
1 Kosovo in Antiquity
1 In the Heart of the Roman Empire - Kosovo in Ptolemy's Map of the Upper Moesia (Moesia Superior)
2 Kosovo in the Network of Roman Roads as Presented by the Peutinger Map
2 The Middle Ages
1 On the Borderland of Byzantium and the Serbian Principality (Rascia) - Kosovo after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire on a Map by Muhammad al-Idrīsī of 1154
2 Kosovo as a Seat of the Medieval Serbian Kingdom on Ptolemaic Maps
3 Beginnings of the Ottoman Conquest
1 Echoes of the Early Ottoman Incursions and the Great Battle of Kosovo (1389)
2 The Fall of Kosovo after the Battle at Novobërdë (1455) on Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi
4 The Period of Early Ottoman Rule in Kosovo
1 Outlines of New Human Landscapes of Kosovo - a Country Yet to Be Known
5 Kosovo as a Theatre of War of the Ottoman Empire and Habsburg Monarchy
1 The Period of the Great Turkish War (1683-1699) and the Appearance of the First Regional Maps
2 Kosovo on War Theatre Maps in the Time of the Peace Treaties of Passarowitz (1718) and Belgrade (1739)
3 Habsburg Efforts from the Period of the Last Habsburg-Ottoman War (1788-1791)
6 The Ottoman Empire and Kosovo in the Crisis of the Nineteenth Century
1 Kosovo at the Time of the Expansion of the Pashalik of Belgrade on Franz von Weiss' Map of European Turkey from 1829
2 Kosovo in the Eyes of European Travelers: the Rise of Local Pashas and Rebellious Albanian Tribes
3 The First Presentation of Kosovo within the Scope of Serbian National Cartography
7 Eastern Question and the Great Powers: Kosovo Appears as a Territorial Entity
1 Demarcations of the San Stefano Peace Treaty and the Berlin Congress (1878) on an Austrian Topographic Map of European Turkey from 1876/1878
2 Kosovo in the Era of Nation-State Nationalism: Ethnographic Maps in the Service of National Ideologies and Territorial Aspirations - Confronting Views
3 Balkan Wars (1912/1913): Drawing the New Political Map of the Balkans
8 The First World War and Its Aftermath
1 Military Campaign of 1915 in War Report Map by Walter Paasche
2 Frontier-Making at the Paris Peace Conference - Kosovo in the Demarcation between Albania and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
9 Interwar Period (1918-1941): Kosovo within the Yugoslav Kingdom
1 Partitions of Kosovo in the Administrative Divisions of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
2 Redrawing the Human Landscape: Planned Colonization of Kosovo
3 Typology of Settlements and New Place-Names as a Tool of Territorial Appropriation Documented by the Topographic Map by the Yugoslav Military Geographical Institute
10 The Second World War
1 Occupation and Division of Kosovo among Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria
2 Kosovo during the Occupation and Major Military Operations in Allied Intelligence Maps
11 The Autonomous Province of Kosovo in Socialist Yugoslavia
1 Territorialization of Kosovo in 1945-1963
2 Kosovo in the Time of Constitutional Changes 1968-1974
3 Changes in the Ethnic Composition of the Population 1971-1991
12 Towards Its Independence
1 A Decade of Struggle and Warfare
2 International Recognition and NATO Forces
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
