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The Black Sea

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by Charles King


  Alexandria 32, 40, 197

  Alexius Comnenus (of Trebizond) 94–5

  Alexius III Angelus (of Byzantium) 94

  Alexius III Comnenus (of Trebizond) 97–8

  Alighieri, Michele degli 102–3

  Alps 7, 17

  Alupka 202

  Alushta 202

  Amaseia 47; see also Amasya

  Amasya 25

  Amazon river 4

  Amazons 26, 45, 68

  amber 76

  American Civil War 181, 192

  American Relief Administration 212

  American War of Independence 160

  amphoras 30

  Anacharsis the Scythian 37–40, 157

  Anacharsis the Younger 39–40

  Anapa, Ottoman conquest of 111

  Anatolia xii, 16, 28, 33, 46–7, 79, 82, 89, 91, 97–8, 100, 104, 115, 139, 172–4, 176, 194–5, 207–9, 211, 213

  anchovy 18, 33, 233

  Andrusov, Nikolai 222–3

  anoxic zone 18; see also Black Sea: geography and ecology; hydrogen sulfide

  Anthoine de Saint-Joseph, Antoine-Ignace 155–7, 165–6, 169, 221

  Antioch 43, 103

  Antipa, Grigore 222–4

  antiquities, destruction of 205

  Apollo 31, 55

  Apollonia 32

  Apollonius of Rhodes 40–2, 46

  Apsarus 53

  Apsilae 54

  Apsyrtos 53

  Arabia and Arabs 45, 66, 69, 72, 74, 91, 128, 190

  arak 115

  archaeology 33, 246

  and Scythians 35–6

  evidence of cross-sea contact 19

  Argo (beer) 42

  Argo (ship) 40–2

  Argonautica 40–2, 46

  Argonauts 40–2, 53, 71

  Argun, khan 85

  Arimasps 27

  Aristophanes 35

  Aristotle 38–9, 219–20

  Arkhangel’sk 143

  Armenia and Armenians 45, 49, 59, 82, 91, 114, 162, 175–6, 185 78 n, 213, 225, 240, 246

  Cilician 102

  deportations 229

  in Russia 166–7, 203–4, 207

  massacres 200, 215, 207, 209–10; see also Armenian genocide

  Armenian genocide 211–2; see also Armenia and Armenians: massacres

  Arrian (Flavius Arrianus) 52–4, 57

  Art Nouveau 36

  Artemis 26

  Asclepius 55–6

  Ashkenaz 36; see also Scythia and Scythians

  Asia (Roman province) 48

  Asia Minor 13, 28–9, 37, 47–8, 212; see also Ionia;

  Ottoman empire

  Turkey and Turks

  Asparukh 78

  Assyrians 28

  Astrakhan, khanate of 142

  Atatürk see Mustafa Kemal

  Ateas 36

  athanatizontes 50

  Athena 41

  Athens 32, 35, 38–9, 48, 246

  Atlantic Ocean 168, 232

  Atlas of the Black Sea 221, 236 48 n; see also Manganari, Egor

  Augustus 44, 50

  Aurelian 52

  Austria 140, 166, 176

  Austrian Lloyd Company 197

  Austrian Steam Navigation Company 197

  autocracy, as ideology 178, 208

  Avars 67–8

  Axis Powers 228

  Azerbaijan 5, 226, 240–1, 225

  Azov (fortress) 126, 140, 145–6, 151, 165

  conquest by Cossacks 132–3, 144;conquest by Peter the Great 144–6; see also Sea of Azov; Tana; Tanais

  BP (former British Petroleum) 245

  BSEC see Black Sea Economic Cooperation

  Baedeker, Karl, publishers 200–1, 203

  Baghdad 75, 79, 89, 98

  Bagrat IV 97

  bahr al-Khazar see Caspian Sea

  bahr al-Rus 76; see also Black Sea: names for

  bahr al-Tarabazunda 82; see also Black Sea: names for

  bahr Buntus xi; see also Black Sea: names for

  Bakhchisarai 122, 149, 162, 172–3

  bahr al-Rus 76

  Baku 196, 198–9, 212, 231, 245

  Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline 245

  Balaklava 173, 180

  Baldwin of Flanders 81

  Balkan wars(1912—1913) 200, 209

  Balkans (mountains and region) 4–8, 69–70, 81, 4, 99, 100, 115, 118, 121, 139, 163, 168, 191, 195, 199, 200, 208, 212, 217, 227, 229, 241

  Balkars, deportation of 229; see also deportations

  Ballard, Robert 18–19, 21 24 n

  Baltic fleet (Russia) 146

  Baltic Sea 5, 74, 76, 82, 124, 143, 145

  barbarians, meaning of term 33–4

  Barbaro, Josafa 90

  Barbié de Bocage, Jean Denis 157, 221

  Barkley, Henry 204–7

  barley 32, 198

  Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques 39–40, 157; see also Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece

  Bascom, Willard 18–19

  Basil II Bulgaroktonos 77–8

  Batumi 15, 195–7, 199–200, 212, 218, 228, 246

  Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur, sieur de 131–3

  beeswax 115

  Behistun 36

  Belgrade, treaty of 140

  Bender 160

  Bentham, Jeremy 158

  Bentham, Samuel 158

  Berezan 31, 34

  Berlin 246

  Berlin, treaty of 195, 206, 215, 223

  Bessarabia 10, 162, 203, 219, 224, 228

  biology 223

  Bithynia and Bithynians 28–9, 47, 52, 99

  Black Death 116; see also plague

  Black Sea: ancient travel across 15–16

  book by Antipa 223

  flood thesis 13–15, 201–5 n, 17

  freezing of 13

  geography and ecology 15–19, 192, 219–24, 230–3, 243

  historiography 4–5, 25, 216–19

  names for xi—xii, 12–13

  regional identity 8

  sediments 14, 17

  weather and climate 12–13, 17; see also individual subject entries

  Black Sea Economic Cooperation 7, 242–4

  Black Sea fleet (Russia) 179, 194, 240

  Black Sea Hydrographical Office 221

  Black Sea “Negroes,” 218

  Black Sea region (of Turkey) 11

  Black Sea trout 18

  black-earth region 197, 230

  bluefish 18

  boats see ships

  Bolshevik revolution 225

  Bolsheviks 5

  bonito 18, 33

  Bonhomme Richard (ship) 158, 160

  Borysthenes (horse) 57

  Borysthenes river 31; see also Dnepr river

  Bosphorus (Cimmerian) see Kerch (strait)

  Bosphorus (Thracian) 25, 29–30, 33, 37, 82–3, 101, 113, 125, 156, 194, 203, 232

  currents in 13, 16, 17, 220

  origins of 14

  Bosporan kingdom 47–9, 54

  Brant, James 175–6

  Braudel, Fernand 3, 239

  Britain 16, 76, 140, 156, 166, 174–7, 179, 194, 197, 200, 210

  Bryer, Anthony 95

  buboes 93

  Bucharest 172, 203, 206, 223

  Bucharest Convention 242

  Buckingham Palace 202

  Budapest 88–9

  Buddhism 150

  Budini 34

  Bug river 29, 31

  Bujak 113, 132

  Bukovina 224

  Bulan, khagan 74–5

  Bulgaria and Bulgarians 7, 16, 19, 32, 43, 50, 66, 99, 171, 190, 194–5, 199, 205–6, 216–17, 224–5, 227–9, 243

  “Bulgarian atrocities” 200

  Bulgars 77–8

  Burebista 50

  Burgas 15

  Bursa 100

  butter 115

  Byzantine empire 8

  and Christianity 78–9

  identity 65–6

  navy 66, 71–3, 128

  relations with Bulgars 77–8

  relations with Khaza
rs 73–5

  relations with Ottomans 98–101

  relations with Pechenegs 69–70

  relations with Rhos 75–7

  Byzantium (city) 25, 31, 33, 44, 57, 65; see also Constantinople; Istanbul

  Byzas 65

  cabotage 126

  Caffa 84–7, 91–2, 111, 115, 117, 126, 162, 165; see also Feodosiia; Theodosia

  Cairo 116 caliph 147

  Callinicus 72

  Callistratus 44

  Cambridge 164

  “Canal of Death” see Danube—Black Sea canal

  cannabis 35

  Cantemir, Dimitrie 145–6

  Cape of Good Hope 13

  Cappadocia 45, 52

  caravel 128–9; see also ships

  Carpathian mountains 29, 51–2, 120

  carrack 128–9; see also ships

  Carthage 47

  cartography 9, 55, 77, 82, 85, 156–7, 183 35 n, 185 73 n, 221–3

  Caspian Sea 13, 15, 17, 75, 82, 84, 94, 103, 142–3, 150, 174, 196, 198–9, 231, 244–5

  Castor 27

  Catalans 84, 91

  Catherine the Great 140, 146, 153–6, 158, 162, 163, 166, 174

  procession to Crimea 147–50, 158

  Caucasus (mountains and region) 4, 7–9, 16–17, 26–31, 41–2, 45–6, 48–9, 52, 73, 75, 81, 85, 88, 111, 117–20, 122–3, 126, 139, 162, 165–6, 175, 177, 191, 195, 197–201, 208–9, 212, 221, 224, 226–7, 229, 241, 245

  Caucasus wars (nineteenth century) 177

  Celts 57, 68

  central Asia xiii, 36, 43, 82, 84, 87, 100, 103, 174–5, 177, 229

  Central Powers 210, 228

  Çepni 80

  Cerasus 32

  Cerberus 26

  Ceyhan 245

  Ch’art 215; see also Armenian genocide

  chaikas 131

  Chalcedon 65

  Charaszkiewicz, Edmund 227

  “Charge of the Light Brigade” 181

  Chechens 208

  deportation of 229; see also deportations

  chemicals 231–2, 243; see also Black Sea: geography and ecology

  Cherno More xii; see also Black Sea: names for

  Chernoe More xii; see also Black Sea: names for

  cherries 32

  Chersonesus 31, 47, 66, 69–71, 74, 77, 84, 94, 162, 164–5

  Chesapeake Bay 4

  Chicago Daily News 12

  China xii, 9, 35, 67, 82, 84, 87, 90, 103, 152

  Chingis Khan 87–90, 120, 122

  cholera 172

  chora 43

  Chorne More xii; see also Black Sea: names for

  Churchill, Winston 229

  Cilicia 45; see also Armenia and Armenians: Cilician

  Cimmerians 28–9, 35

  Circassia and Circassians 117, 139, 207

  deportation of 208–9, 215; see also deportations

  Civrano, Andreolo 91–2

  Clavijo, Ruy González de 96

  coal 190, 194, 198

  cog 127–9; see also ships

  Colchis and Colchians 27–8, 40–2, 45, 57, 191, 218

  cold war 4, 227, 239

  colonization 166; see also Greeks (ancient): exploration and colonization; Russian empire: colonization

  commerce: growth in eighteenth century 154–7

  in New Russia 162–8; see also individual products

  communism 6, 229–33, 241

  Comnenus dynasty 93–8, 101, 103

  Conan the Barbarian 28

  Constanţa 32, 206, 210, 228–9, 232, 246; see also Köstence; Tomis

  Constantine the Great 65, 72

  Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus 73–5, 69–70

  Constantinople xii, 65–6, 71–2, 75–6, 89, 92, 96, 101–2, 146

  conquest by Latins 80–1, 119

  conquest by Ottomans 66, 100–1, 111, 113

  population 113

  reconquest by Byzantines 83, 103–4; see also Byzantium (city); Istanbul

  Continental Army 148

  conversion see religious conversion

  Cordoba 75, 86, 116

  corn laws (Britain) 167

  corruption 240–1

  in quarantine systems 171

  Çoruh river see Acampsis river

  Cossacks 8, 140, 147–8, 153, 208, 227

  capture of Azov fortress 144, 151

  destruction of Zaporozhian headquarters 147

  navy 129–34, 144–6

  origins 130–1

  Costas 85

  cotton 115, 177

  coureurs des bois 8

  Cracow 88

  cranes 27

  Crimea 10, 15–17, 26–8, 30, 32–3, 36, 46, 49, 50, 54, 66, 68–9, 75, 85, 94, 97, 111, 114, 126, 139, 143, 149, 162, 164–5, 173, 200, 204, 219, 225

  annexation of by Russia 147, 154

  republic of 226, 229

  under Ottomans 121–2

  Crimean Tatars 11, 121–2, 131, 139, 146, 149, 151

  deportation of 206–8, 215, 229

  relations with Muscovy 141–3

  return to Crimea 229, 246

  Crimean war 140, 177–81, 189–90, 196–7, 200, 208

  Croatia 169

  Crusades and Crusaders 83, 94, 99, 104

  conquest of Constantinople 80–1, 93

  culture, as idea 7

  Cumans 67, 74, 77, 89, 120

  Curzon, Lord 214

  Cybele 37

  d’Albenga, Obertino 85

  da Bologna, Ludovico 101–4

  da Vinci, Leonardo 220

  Dacia and Daci 50–2, 57, 216–17

  Damascus 43, 89, 98, 115

  Dandolo, Enrico 80

  Danube–Black Sea canal 231

  Danube Commission 193

  Danube river 7, 16–18, 26, 36, 49, 51–2, 54, 77, 84, 111, 113, 120–1, 125–6, 133, 161, 163, 165, 170, 172, 178, 180–1, 190, 194, 196–7, 199, 201, 205–6, 215, 217, 221, 224, 240

  delta of 32

  Danubian principalities 162

  see also Wallachia;

  Moldova (principality)

  Dardanelles 13, 17, 32, 101, 125, 140, 156, 210

  origins 14

  Darius 36

  Dasht-i Qipchaq 113, 133, 134 5 n

  David Comnenus 95, 102

  David II 94

  De administrando imperio 69–70; see also Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus

  De Quincy, Thomas 153

  de Ribas, José 163

  de’ Mussi, Gabriele 92

  Decebal 50–2

  Decembrist rebellion 178

  deforestation 230

  Delphi, oracle at 65

  Demidoff, Anatole de 172

  deportations 206–15, 229

  derebeys 123–5, 173–4, 176

  development 191–2, 229–33, 239

  devşirme system 135 19

  di Campo, Mazzo 85

  di Ghisulfo, Giacommo 85

  di Saluzzo, Guglielmo 85

  Diderot, Denis 139, 189

  Dio Chrysostom 43–4

  Diodorus Siculus 13, 15

  Diogenes Laertius 37

  Dionysus 34

  Dioscurias 29, 31, 54

  disease 165–6, 180; see also Black Death; cholera; malaria; plague; typhus

  Dnepr estuary, battle of the 159–61

  Dnepr river 7, 16–18, 26, 31, 34, 46, 68, 76, 111, 113, 115, 120–1, 126, 129, 131, 143, 146–8, 153, 156–8, 160–1, 162–3, 165–6, 168, 197

  damming of 190, 231

  Dneprostroi hydroelectric station 231

  Dobrudja 10, 199, 203–6, 217–19, 224, 228

  railways in 204–7

  Dodonian oak 41

  dolphins 30

  Dominicans 84, 89

  domni 121

  domnitori 121

  Don Cossacks see Cossacks

  Don Juan 164

  Don river 7, 16–18, 26, 36, 74, 82, 84, 88–9, 91, 111, 126, 133, 143–5, 151, 165

  as Europe–Asia boundary 54, 68

  Dracula 121

  dredge nets 233
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  Dubrovnik see Ragusa

  Durham (city) 205

  Durham, Edith 191

  eastern Europe, as region 4–5, 20

  Eastern Question 5, 227

  Edirne see Adrianople

  Edward I 95

  Egypt 10, 43, 80, 116, 143, 169

  Egyptians 28, 36, 218

  Eleusinian mysteries 38

  emirs 79

  emporia 30

  Encyclopédie 139

  England 128; see also Britain

  Enlightenment 14, 162, 220

  environment see Black Sea: geography and ecology

  epic of Gilgamesh 15

  Epictetus 52

  Erasmus 38

  Erzurum 97, 211

  Eski Cami 100

  Essex (ship) 176

  estuaries 17

  Ethiopia 102

  Euphrates river 30, 45

  Eurasia see individual subject entries

  Europe, nation-states in 6

  European Union 7, 239, 241, 244, 246

  eutrophication 232; see also Black Sea: geography and ecology

  Euxine xi, 1

  see also Black Sea: names for

  Evliya Çelebi114, 117, 130, 132

  exile 207; see also deportations

  famine 212

  Feodosiia 31, 204; see also Caffa;

  Theodosia

  fertilizers see chemicals

  First World War 140, 161, 191, 198, 207, 209–12, 217, 224, 228, 246

  fish and fishing 29, 31–3, 46, 215, 219, 233, 243; see also Black Sea: geography and ecology; entries for individual species

  flatulence 33

  flood see Black Sea: flood thesis

  Florence 90–1, 102

  flounder 18

  fluid mechanics 219–20

  Foreign Office (Britain) 175

  France 140, 148–9, 155, 167, 178–9, 197, 200, 210

  Franciscans 84, 86, 103

  Franks 91, 114

  Frederick III 102

  Frederick the Great 148

  French revolution 149, 156

  frontier, as idea 8–11

  fur trade 10, 73, 76, 82, 115

  Galaţi 170, 173, 228

  galeasse 128; see also galleys

  Galicia 82

  galleys 128, 132, 144, 157–8, 159–61

  Gallipoli 101, 210, 213

  Gaul and Gauls 49, 57

  Gazaria 75, 81

  Gelonus 34

  Genesis 15, 28, 36

  Genoa and Genoese 8, 10, 66, 81–7, 91–2, 98, 103, 114, 173, 167–8

  genocide 211–12, 214–15

  Georgia and Georgians 5, 7, 11, 16, 31, 41–2, 66, 69, 84, 94–5, 97, 102, 119, 139, 148, 162, 174–5, 195, 199, 225–7, 239, 241, 243–4, 246

  relations with Ottomans 122–3

  Georgian military highway 177

  Germans, as settlers in Russia 166–7; see also Volga Germans

  Germany 197, 211, 222

  invasion of Soviet Union 227–8

  Getae 43, 46, 49–52, 191, 216–17

  Gibraltar 143, 179

  Giray dynasty (Crimea) 120, 122

  globalization 93

  Goeben (ship) 211

  gold 19, 27, 32, 36, 43, 50

  extraction using fleeces 41, 60 52n

  Golden Fleece 27, 40–1

 

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