The Black Sea by King, Charles -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication About the Author Contents Acknowlegments On Names List of Plates List of Maps 1 An Archaeology of Place

People and Water Region, Frontier, Nation Beginnings Geography and Ecology

2 Pontus Euxinus,700 BC–AD 500

The Edge of the World “Frogs Around a Pond” “A Community of Race” How a Scythian Saved Civilization The Voyage of Argo “More Barbarous Than Ourselves” Pontus and Rome Dacia Traiana The Expedition of Flavius Arrianus The Prophet of Abonoteichus

3 Mare Maggiore, 500-1500

“The Scythian Nations are One” Sea-Fire Khazars, Rhos, Bulgars, and Turks Business in Gazaria Pax Mongolica The Ship from Caffa Empire of the Comneni Turchia An Ambassador from the East

4 Kara Deniz, 1500–1700

“The Source of All the Seas” “To Constantinople—to be Sold!” Domn, Khan, and Derebey Sailors’ Graffiti A Navy of Seagulls

5 Chernoe More, l700—1860

Sea and Steppe A Flotilla on Azov Cleopatra Processes South The Flight of the Kalmoucks A Season in Kherson Rear Admiral Dzhons New Russia Fever, Ague, and Lazaretto A Consul in Trabzon Crimea

6 Black Sea, 1860–1990

Empires, States, and Treaties Steam, Wheat, Rail, and Oil “An Ignoble Army of Scribbling Visitors” Trouble on the Köstence Line The Unpeopling “The Division of the Waters” Knowing the Sea The Prometheans Development and Decline

7 Facing the Water Sources for Introductory Quotations Bibliography and Further Reading Index