Via Egnatia: An Ancient Roman Road Through The Balkans

http://www.viaegnatia.net/

"The via Egnatia is the name by which the Romans defined and structured the East-to-West route of this network, starting from the II century B. C.

Such route was of strategic importance both in ancient times and today, when the flow of the sources of energy and the information, which are crucial to the development of many continental areas, are more evident.

What was the function of the ancient via Egnatia may be found today in two slightly different positions: either northwards, under the name of Corridor 8, a connection project aimed at linking Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania from the Black Sea through the bench marks of Varna, Burgas, Sofia, Skopje, Durazzo, with the exclusion of the modern Greece and the Thessalonica harbour; or, somehow in alternative, more southwards, by keeping its name and following, in its final section, another ancient route which, from Larissa junction, led to the Ionian Sea (the Nea Egnatia, with its harbour at Igoumenitsa).

The need to tackle the problem of the topographical reconstruction of such route with a systematic and analytic approach, far from being solved, is at the roots of the book published by Michele Fasolo. The first volume specifically aims at recovering, re-examining and updating the knowledge of Via Egnatia and the ancient path that preceded it, known in the Roman age as a road of Candavia, in the Albanian central region, running from the Adriatic coast to the area of Ochrida lake and, more eastwards, until the ancient town of Herakleia Lynkestidos in Macedonia."

Michele Fasolo, La via Egnatia I. Da Apollonia e Dyrrachium ad Herakleia Lynkestidos, Roma, 2003, 288 pp.

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Kitab - History and Culture of Southern Uzbekistan

http://www.kitab.uz
31 Aug 2009

www.kitab.uz, Termez, Uzbekistan.

Self-description:
"KITAB.UZ is a website [est. in Sep 2007 by Otabek OGULYAMOV - ed.] dedicated to creation and maintenance of digital historical, literal and cultural works about Southern Uzbekistan. Scholars, students and all individuals who are interested in the following topics are welcomed to browse our pages."

Site contents:
* Archaeology (incl. articles such as : #Kampirtepa - the Greek crossing on the Amudarya, #Chag'oniyonga sayohat, #Budrach xarobasidan topilgan o'rta asrlarga oid bronza buyumlar xazinasi, #Central Asia in the Kushan Period - archaeological studies by Soviet scholars, #Termez, #Ayrtam, #Kampyr Tepe-Pandokheion - Les Grecs ont traverse l'Oxus, #Shimoli-g'arbiy Tohariston rivojlangan o'rta asrlar davri moddiy madaniyati - Arxeologiya va yozma manbalar asosida, #O'rta Osiyo arxeologining shakllanishi);
* Ethnography (incl. articles such as: #Traditional Kashkadarya Female Clothing of the First Half of the 20th Century, #The multimedia compact disk 'Boysun', #Taqinchoqlar yaratilishi va tarqalishi tarixidan - Surxondaryo viloyati misolida, XIX asr oxiri XX asr boshlari, #Kiyimlar bilan bog'liq urf-odatlar, #Ayollar pardozi tarixidan);
* Kongrats [results of a research project "The Kongrat group identities throughout contemporary Central Asia. Changes and continuities in 'tribal' culture": Research Guide, Illustrations);
* History (incl. articles such as: #Dichtung als Quelle der Untersuchung des staedtischen Selbstbewusstseins der Menschen im Mittelalter, #Timurids and Termez Sayyids, #Balxdagi Navbahor ibodathonasi haqida tarixiy ma'lumotlar, #Hoshimgird shahri nomining kelib chikishi masalasiga doir); * Vocabulary [An encyclopaedic dictionary, from A: A Rise of Mangits (1747-1758), Achaemenids, Agriculture (Bactria), Agriculture (Hellenic Period), Airtam, Ak-Astana-Bobo Mausoleum, Amu Darya Treasure, The, Anakhita, Ancient Bactria, Ancient Cults, Antique City, Antique Sources, Arab Conquest, Archeology of Termez, Architecture in the Kushan Period, Armenian Sources, Army and Arms (Hellenic Period), Army and Arms (Kushan Epoch), Army and Arms (the State of Amir Temur), Art Metal (Early Middle Ages), Art Metal Working (Hellenic Period), through M: Machay Grotto, Madrasah of Seyid Atalik, Manichaeism, Mausoleum of Khakimi at-Termezi, Medieval Christian Temple in Termez, Medieval Jewellery, Mesolithic Period, The, Metallurgy and Art Metal, Modern Termez, Mukanna's Revolt, Murals of Balalik-Tepa, Murals of Khalchayan, Musa b. Abdallah, Music and Musical Instruments, to Z: Zaraut-Kamar, Zoroastrian Deities, Zoroastrianism - ed.];
* Image Library [Southern Uzbekistan Historical Database: 884 photographs - ed.];
* Search.

[A site, predominantly in English, with occasional elements in French, German, Uzbek, and Russian - ed.]

URL http://www.kitab.uz/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.kitab.uz/

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Charles Wheeler, "A Maritime Logic to Vietnamese History? Littoral Society in Hoi An's Trading World c.1550-1830."

http://www.historycooperative.org/proceedings/seascapes/wheeler.html

Charles Wheeler, "A Maritime Logic to Vietnamese History? Littoral Society
in Hoi An's Trading World c.1550-1830." Paper presented at _Seascapes,
Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges_, Library of Congress,
Washington D.C., February 12-15, 2003.
http://www.historycooperative.org/proceedings/seascapes/wheeler.html

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The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion / A Enciclopedia Virtual da Expansao Portuguesa

http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/eve/index.php?lang=en

03 Jun 2009

Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar (CHAM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade dos Acores [Azores], Portugal

Self-description:
"The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion is a project developed by the Centre for Overseas History, an interuniversity research unit of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon and the University of the Azores. The project makes available multimedia contents of a scientific, educational, and cultural nature on the history of the discoveries and the Portuguese expansion.
The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion is meant for a broad audience both within and outside Portugal, including secondary school students, university students and researchers, social communication professionals, and all those interested in the history of the discoveries and the Portuguese expansion.
The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion offers articles, images, maps, chronologies, and genealogies of a condensed nature, but endowed with great scientific authority and reliability. It is continually being expanded and updated. The materials are produced by professors and researchers from the academia and validated by a scientific committee composed of the most renowned national and foreign historians. The project covers a vast geographical area which extends from the Azores to Japan, and a period of time from the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century.
The bilingual [PT/EN - ed.] nature of the Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion makes it an indispensable means for the international dissemination of the history and historiography of the Portuguese presence around the world (though, for technical reasons, the online availability of English-language translations might not keep pace with the Portuguese entries, and vice versa). The national character of the Portuguese expansive enterprise is emphasized, along with its integration into a wider European context and its importance for a new emerging European consciousness which is now suspended between criticism and apology for the process of Western expansion."

Site contents [as of early June 2009 - ed.]:
* Anthroponyms (Abreu, Luis de - Adami, Joao Mateus - Adao de Hizen [...] - Vieira, Sebastiao - Vilela, Gaspar - Zola, Joao Baptista)
* Arts (Azamor, frescos da Tomada de - Carpets, Spain - Tapetes, Turkey - Carpets, Turkey "Bellini" - Carpets, Turkey "Holbein" - Carpets, Turkey "Lotto" - Carpets, Turkey "Ushak" - Chinoiserie - Indo-Portuguese, art - Saint, Francis Xavier, Tomb - Sino-Portuguese, art - Wire rods of gold paper)
* Literature (Almanach Perpetuum - Antonil, Padre Andre Joao - Aristotelianism in Natural Philosophy - Barbosa, Duarte de - Barros, Joao de - Castanheda, Fernao Lopes de - Correia, Gaspar - Frois, Luis - Gois, Damiao de - Lagoa, 4.o Visconde de - Ptolemy's Geography: Graphic Syntax and Projections);
* Politics (AlcAcovas-Toledo, Treaty of - Convention of Goa - Daikan - Diplomacy in the Restoration Period - General Captaincy of Azores - Portugal and Italian Cities (14th-16th Centuries) - Portuguese-British Treaty - Portuguese-English Bilateral Relations - Treaty of Westminster);
* Products (Elephants - Glue - Tea - Tobacco);
* Religion;
* Themes and Facts (Almanacs - Astronomical Navigation - Astronomical Tables - Balestilha - Books of Route - Cartography - Compass - Dutch blockades of Goa - Equador - Height East-West - Height Navigation - India Fleet of 1500 - India Run - Itineraries - Log-books - Loxodromic line - Incindent of Madre Deus - Mocambique, Prazos da Coroa de - Mozambique, Dutch sieges of - Naus, Ribeira das - Nautical Guides - Navy Books - Portolano - Portuguese Nautical Science - Quadrant - Regiment - Rules of Evora - Rules of Munique - Rules of the South Cruise - Secret of Secrets - Shipboard Books - Treaty of Sphere - Zenith Distance - 'Genoese World Map' drawn in 1457);
* Toponyms (Georeferencing - Achem - Adem - Agadir - Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gue - AlcAcer Ceguer - AlcAcer-Quibir - Angra do Heroismo - Ano Bom island - Arguim - Arzila - Ayuthia - Azamor - Bacaim - Baia CabrAlia - Barcelor - Beijing - Belem do ParA - Benguela - Bissau - Brazil - Cacheu - Calicute - Cananor - Cantao - Cape of Good Hope - Ceuta - Ceylon - Chaul - Chicova - Colombo, city of - Coulao - Damao - Dili - Diu - Fernando Po island - Fort Cochin - Fukuda - Funchal - Goa - Hirado - Horta - Ielala, Rocks - Kagoshima - Kupang - Kyoto - Lagos - Lisbon - Luanda - Macau - Madeira - Malacca - Manaus - Mangalor - Mariana - Mascate - Mazagao - Meliapor - Melinde - Mogi, city of - Monbasa - Mocambique island - Mumbai - Nagasaki, city of - Natal - Oita - Omura - Onor - Ormus - Osaka - Ouro Preto - Pegu - Pernambuco - Pernambuco - Ponta Delgada - Praia (Azores) - Praia (Cape Verde) - Prince island - Quelimane - Quiloa - Ribeira Grande (Cape Verde) - Rio de Janeiro - Rios de Sena - Sacramento (Uruguai) - Safi - Sagres - Saint Helena, island - Salvador (Bahia) - Sao Jorge da Mina - Sao Luis do Maranhao - Sao Nicolau, ilha de - Sao Paulo - S. Tome island - Sena - Shimabara - Sion - Socotra island - Sofala - Tangier - Tete - Tokyo - Yokoseura, city of - Zumbo);
* Bibliographies;
* Chronology (British Presence in Asia - Exploration of the Atlantic - Portuguese presence in Morocco and the Mediterranean);
* Currencies/Weights/Measures;
* Genealogies;
* Lists (Achem: Sultans - AlcAcer Ceguer: Captains and Governors - Angamale: Bishops - Angola: Bishops - Angra: Bishops - Arguim: Captains and Governors - Asilah: Captains and Governors - Azemmour: Captains and Governors - Azores: General Captains - Bahia: Bishops - Brazil: Captains - Brazil: Governors and Vice-Roys - Cabo Verde: Bishops - Ceuta: Bishops - Ceuta: Captains and Governors - China: Vice-Provincials - China: Mission Superiors - Cochin: Bishops - Congo: Bishops - Cranganore: Bishops - CuiabA (Prelazia): Bishops - Ethiopia: Bishops - Flores and Corvo: Donatary Captains - Funchal: Bishops - Goa: Bishops, Archbishpos and Patriarchs - Goa: Provincials and Vice-provincials - Goias (Prelazia): Bishops - Capitaes e Governadores de Mocambique - Graciosa: Donatary Captains - India Fleets of the Reign of Filipe I - India Fleets of the Reign of Afonso VI - India Fleets of the Reign of D.HenriqueI - India Fleets of the Reign of Filipe II - India Fleets of the Reign of Filipe III - India Fleets of the Reign of Joao III - India Fleets of the Reign of Joao IV - India Fleets of the Reign of Joao V - India Fleets of the Reign of Jose I - India Fleets of the Reign of Manuel I - India Fleets of the Reign of Pedro II - India Fleets of the Reign of Sebastiao I - India Provinces: Visitors - India Run: Captains and Capitaes-Mor - India: Governors and Vice-roys - Japan and China: Visitors - Japan: Bishops - Japan: Provincials and Vice-Provincials - Japan: Mission Superiors - Macao: Bishops - Macau: Governors and General Captains - Madeira (Funchal) island: Donatary Captains - Madeira (Machico) island: Donatary Captains - Madeira island: General Captains - Malabar:Provincials and Vice-Provincials - Malacca: Bishops - Malacca: Captains - Maranhao: Vice-Provincials - Maranhao: Bishops - Mariana: Bishops - Mazagan: Captains and Governors - Meliapor: Bishops - Mogador: Captains and Governors - Morocco: Bishops - Mozambique (Prelazia): Bishops - Nanjing: Bishops - Olinda: Bishops - Pacem: Sultans - ParA: Bishops - Peking: Bishops - Philippines: Governors - Pico and Faial islands: Donatary Captains - Rio Janeiro: Bishops - Safi: Captains and Governors - Samudera: Sultans - Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gue (Agadir): Captains and Governors - Sta. Maria and S. Miguel: Donatary Captains - Santa Maria island: Donatary Captains - S. Miguel island: Donatary Captains - S. Paulo: Bishops - S.Tome e Principe island: Donatary Captains - S. Tome: Bishops - Society of Jesus: Generals - Solor: Governors - Solor: Major Captains - Tangier: Bishops - Tangier: Captains and Governors - Terceira and S. Jorge: Donatary Captains - Terceira (Praia) island: Donatary Captains - Timor: Governors - Timor: Major Captains);
* Search (Free Search - Search alphabetically - Thematic Search - Auxiliary);
* Contacts;
* Credits (President of the Executive Board, Scientific Coordination, Executive Board, Scientific Committee, Support).

URL http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/eve/index.php?lang=en

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Inde-Asie centrale : routes du commerce et des idées

http://asiecentrale.revues.org/index400.html

Les Cahiers d'Asie Centrale 1/2 | 1996
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Table of Contents

Pierre Chuvin
Les Cahiers d’Asie centrale : naissance d’une revue

Dossier. Inde-Asie centrale : routes du commerce et des idées

De la géographie à l’histoire

Audrey Burton - Itinéraires commerciaux et militaires entre Boukhara et l’Inde
Marchands et artisans
Claude Rapin - Relations entre l’Asie centrale et l’Inde à l’époque hellénistique
Sanjyot Mehendale - Begram: along ancient Central Asia and Indian trade routes
Frantz Grenet - Les marchands sogdiens dans les mers du Sud à l’époque préislamique
Razia Mukminova - Les routes caravanières entre villes de l’Inde et de l’Asie centrale : déplacements des artisans et circulation des articles artisanaux
Maria Szuppe - En quête de chevaux turkmènes. Le journal de voyage de Mîr ‘Izzatullâh de Delhi à Boukhara en 1812-1813
K. Warikoo - Trade Relations between Central Asia ans Kashmir Himalayas during the Dogra Period (1846-1947)

De l’architecture à la musique

Galina Pugačenkova - La genèse centre-asiatique des minarets indiens
Monique Kervran - Entre l’Inde et l’Asie centrale : les mausolées islamiques du Sind et du sud Penjab
Aleksandr Džumaev - Migrations des musiciens des villes de Transoxiane et développement de la science musicale en Inde (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

Les religions et leurs fidèles

Margarita Filanovič and Zamira Usmanova - Les frontières occidentales de la diffusion du bouddhisme en Asie centrale
Jürgen Paul - Influences indiennes sur la naqshbandiyya d’Asie centrale ?
Bahtijar Babadžanov- Zahîr al-Dîn Muhammad Mîrzâ Bâbur et les Shaykh Naqshbandî de Transoxiane
Thierry Zarcone - Une route de sainteté islamique entre l’Asie centrale et l’Inde : la voie Ush-Kashgar-Srinaga

Lectures politiques de l’Asie centrale
Boris Kočnev - Les Moghols et l’Asie centrale, à travers les monnaies de Shâh Jahân figurant dans les trésors centre-asiatiques
Marc Gaborieau - L’Asie centrale dans l’horizon de l’Inde au début du XXe siècle : à propos d’une lettre de Sayyid Ahmad Barelwî à l’émir de Boukhara
Gilles Boquerat - Du bond en avant au retour en arrière, évolution de la perception indienne de l’Asie centrale au cours du XXe siècle

Vue de l’extérieur
Michel Tardieu - Le Tibet de Samarcande et le pays de Kûsh : mythes et réalités d’Asie centrale chez Benjamin de Tudèle
Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont - Les routes d’Asie centrale d’après le Cihân-Nümâ de Kâtib Çelebî

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Maharashtra District and State Gazetteers, India

http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/
31 Mar 2009

Maharashtra District and State Gazetteers

Gazetteers Department, Govt of Maharashtra, Mumbai, India.

Self-description:
"[This set of online Gazetteers] not only includes a comprehensive description of the physical and natural features of a region but also a broad narrative of the social, political, economic and cultural life of the people living in a district. The topics on physical features, material resources, history, customs and manners of the people, trade, agriculture, industries, communication [incl. information on historical roads and trade routes of the region - ed.], administrative departments, voluntary social organisations and places of interest in a district are covered. [...] Compilation and publication of the revised District Gazetteers edition was started in 1949."

Site contents [free access, online documents in PDF and html formats]:
* District Gazetteers (1 Aurangabad 1977; 2 Poona 1954; 3 Jalgaon 1962; 4 Ratnagiri 1962; 5 Satara 1963; 6 Kolaba 1964; 7 Nagpur 1966; 8 Parbhani 1967; 9 Amravati 1968; 10 Beed 1969; 11 Sangli 1969; 12 Nanded 1971; 13 Osmanabad 1972; 14 Chandrapur 1972; 15 Dhule 1974; 16 Wardha 1974; 17 Yavatmal 1974; 18 Nashik 1975; 19 Buldhana 1976; 20 Ahmednagar 1976; 21 Solapur 1977; 22 Akola 1977; 23 Kolhapur 1960; 24 Bhandara 1979; 25 Thane 1982; 26 Greater Bombay Part I 1987; 27 Greater Bombay Part II 1987; 28 Greater Bombay Part III 1987); * Gazetteers (in Marathi); * Supplements; * Source Material for a History of the Freedom movement in India; * State Gazetteers (1 Botany Part - I, Medicinal Plants 1953; 2 Botany Part - II, Timbers 1957; 3 Botany Part -III, Miscellaneous Plants 1961; 4 History Part - 1, Ancient Period 1967; 5 History Part - 3, Maratha Period 1968; 6 Maharashtra:Land and its People 1968; 7 Language and Literature 1970; 8 History Part -II, Medieval Period 1972; 9 Fauna 1974; 10 Botany and Flora of Maharashtra 1987; 11 History of Bombay: Modern Period 1987); Reprints of Gazetteers [of the British regime (1874 to 1913)] ((1-3 Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island (1909) Part I-III; 4 Ratnagiri and Sawantwadi District Gazetteer (1880); 5 Khandesh District Gazetteer (1880); 6 Thana District Gazetteer Part I (1882); 7 Thana District Gazetteer Part II (1882); 8 Thana District Gazetteer Part III (1882); 9 Nashik District Gazetteer (1883); 10 Kolaba District Gazetteer (1883); 11 Satara District Gazetteer (1884); 12 Solapur District Gazetteer (1884); 13 Poona District Gazetteer Part I (1885); 14 Poona District Gazetteer Part II (1885); 15 Poona District Gazetteer Part III (1885); 16 Kolhapur District Gazetteer (1886); 17 Ahmednagar District Gazetteer (1884); # Gazetteers of Central Provinces and Berar; 1 Wardha District Gazetteer (1906); 2 Yeotmal District Gazetteer (1908); 3 Buldhana District Gazetteer (1910); 4 Akola District Gazetteer (1910); 5 Amravati District Gazetteer (1911); 6 Nagpur District Gazetteer (1908); 7 Bhandara District Gazetteer (1908); 8 Chanda District Gazetteer (1909); # Gazetteer of The NizamÕs Dominions (Marathwada Region); 1 Aurangabad District Gazetteer (1884)); * About Department.

URL http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/

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Silk Road, Cotton Road or . . . . Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times

STEPHEN F. DALE "Silk Road, Cotton Road or . . . . Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times". Modern Asian Studies, Published online by Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S0026749X07003277

Modern Asian Studies Vol. 43 Issue 01, pp 79-88.

"Silk Road, Cotton Road or . . . . Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times"
STEPHEN F. DALE

OSU Department of History, 367 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Email: dale.1--at--osu.edu

Abstract
India and China were the most important producers of textiles in the world prior to the industrial revolution. However, whereas the Western historiography usually discusses Indian cotton and Chinese silk in connection with European imports, or with their sales in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, cotton and silk were also exchanged between India and China. Indeed, Indian cotton and Chinese silk were probably the principal manufactured goods exchanged between these civilizations. Although Indian records are fragmentary, especially when compared with the voluminous Chinese sources, Indian cotton goods are known to have reached the Indianized states in Xinjiang in the early Common Era (CE), and may have been produced there, in Khotan and the neighbouring states, by the time that indigenous silk production was known to exist in India in the fourth and fifth centuries CE. Yet, while in later centuries large amounts of cotton cloth were produced in China while indigenous centres of silk production developed in India, exchanges of the finest types of cotton and silk cloth continued, usually driven by cultural and social factors in each civilization.

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The Great [China-Russia 19th c.] Tea Route

http://www.tearoad.ru/


15 Jan 2009

The Great [China-Russia] Tea Route

www.tearoad.ru, Ulan-ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia.

Self-description: "The project 'Great Tea Route' aims to use the rich
cultural and historical heritage of the vast territory of Eurasia,
associated with the [bygone] era of the trade routes for tourism
development, [...]."

Site contents:
* Events (Baikal meeting of the project, The Fifth International
Tourism Forum, Business meeting of the project participants in the
Perm region, 2009); * Documents [on tourism development]; * On the Tea
Route (History, Geography [incl. a map of the 19th c. Asia's tea
routes at http://tearoad.ru/WT/sites/tearoad/misc/map2.jpg], Sights,
Bibliography [96 articles and books, all in Russian - ed.]); * News
(Shooting a video on the Great Tea Route, The proposal for tourist-
member project). * Contacts. * Great Way of Tea (The Development Phase
of the project); * Participation in the project (Organizing Committee
Participants); * Plans (The plan of action for 2008, The plan of
action for 2009); * Tours (Tours of Buryatia, Tours in Russia); * All
about tea

[A site exclusively in Russian. Can be translated into other languages
via http://translate.google.com/ or other online tools - ed.]

URL http://www.tearoad.ru/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the
time of this abstract]

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Discussion group "Amber Road"

http://groups.google.com/group/amber-road

Welcome to the discussion group "Amber Road", 
providing documentation to reconstruct the ancient amber-trading routes in Europe.
 
Link to the German version of this Google Group ("Bernsteinstrasse")
 
http://groups.google.com/group/amber-road

Amber trading at the Hansa trading monopoly (1255-1525)
Last updated by JWR - Nov 24 - 1 author - 1 page long
The amber roads in Normandy
Last updated by JWR - Nov 18 2007 - 1 author - 3 pages long
Natural amber finding locations in Europe
Last updated by JWR - Nov 18 2007 - 1 author - 5 pages long
Amber finding locations in "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny
Last updated by JWR - Nov 18 2007 - 1 author - 2 pages long
Etymology for the word “Amber”
Last updated by JWR - Jul 27 2007 - 1 author - 4 pages long
Overview of Amber Roads and other trading routes
Last updated by Joannes.Rich...@googlemail.com - Jul 25 2007 - 1 author - 1 page long
The Dutch amber trading routes
Last updated by JWR - Aug 23 2007 - 1 author - 4 pages long
Ambur-settlements
Last updated by JWR - Jul 27 2007 - 1 author - 2 pages long

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Baltic Connections 1450-1800

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=29280

Baltic Connections
Archival Guide to the Maritime Relations of the Countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands) 1450-1800
Edited by Lennart Bes, Edda Frankot and Hanno Brand

Publication year: 2007, Leiden: Brill.

In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, Northern Europe was a crucible of political, maritime and economic activity. Ships from ports all around the Baltic Sea as well as from the Low Countries plied the Baltic waters, triggering market integration, migration flows, nautical innovations and the dissemination of cultural values. This archival guide is an essential research tool for scholars studying these Baltic connections, providing descriptions of almost 1000 archival collections concerning trade, shipping, merchants, commodities, diplomacy, finances and migration in the years 1450-1800. These rich and varied sources kept at more than 100 repositories in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden are herewith collected for the first time.

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=29280

Series: The Northern World, 36
ISBN-13 (i): 978 90 04 16429 1
ISSN: 1569-1462
Cover: Hardback
Number of pages: vol 1: xxxvi, 788 pp; vol 2: xxvi, 822 pp; vol 3: xxvi, 718 pp.
Number of volumes: 3
 
List price: EUR 315.00 / US$ 450.00

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Trade Routes: four new references

Munro, John H. 1999.
The Low Countries’ export trade in textiles with the Mediterranean basin, 1200-1600: a cost-benefit analysis of comparative advantages in overland and maritime trade routes. Published in: The International Journal of Maritime History 2 11 (1999): pp. 1-30.
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10924/

Munro, John H. 2000.
The Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Warfare, Transaction Costs, and the 'New Institutional Economics'
http://ideas.repec.org/p/tor/tecipa/munro-00-01.html

Galdston, Iago. 1961.
Trade Routes and Medicine.
Bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine. 1961. May; 37(5): 342–358.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1804663

Blom, Ronald G. 1997.
Space Technology, Ancient Frankincese Trade Routes, and the Discovery of the Lost City of Ubar. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
http://hdl.handle.net/2014/22395

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Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia 1600-1834

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html
13 Oct 2008

The British Library, London, UK.

Self-description:
"Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia 1600-1834. An exhibition at the British Library 24 May - 22 September 2002. [...] 'Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia' tells a remarkable story. It follows the rise and fall of the Company over 200 years - from its beginnings in London and its first trading post on Asian soil to its expansion into India, China, Indonesia, Japan and Persia until the eventual loss of its trading monopoly in 1834."

Site contents:
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: * World in 1600 (Background, Iberian Exploration, Dutch Exploration, England, Foundation of the East India Company); * Getting There (Shipbuilding, First Voyage, On Board Ship, Hazards, Cargoes); * Bantam (Where is Bantam?, The Dutch, Market, Making Contact); * Expansion (Why Expand?, Japan, Iran, Yemen); * India (Why India?, Culture & Curiosity, Factors & Forts, Private Trade, Textiles, Politics); * China (Why China?, Trade, Silk, Porcelain, Tea, Opium); * Impacts (Final Years of the EIC, Overview, Asia on Britain, Britain on Asia); * Search. * Contact us; * SIte Map.

URL http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20070610062850/http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/trading/home.html

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

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