scholarly journals ‘Pre-Neolithic’ in Southeast Europe: a Bulgarian perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 95-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gurova ◽  
Clive Bonsall
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Site Distribution

 This paper discusses why large areas of the central and northern Balkans lack evidence of Mesolithic settlement and what implications this holds for future research into the Neolithization of the region. A marked shift in site distribution patterns between Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic is interpreted as a response to changing environmental conditions and resource availability. It is suggested that some important questions of the pattern, processes and timing of the transition to farming across the Balkan Peninsula may only be answered through new archaeological surveys of the Lower Danube valley and exploration of submerged landscapes along the Black Sea, Aegean and Adriatic coasts.

scholarly journals A new record of Ratan goby - Ponticola ratan (Nordmann, 1840) (Pisces: Gobiidae) in the Black Sea, Romanian coastal waters

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Daniel Cocan ◽  
Vasile Otel ◽  
Calin Latiu ◽  
Vioara Miresan
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
New Record ◽  
Head Length ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Meristic Characters ◽  
Lower Jaw ◽  
Western Area

In August 2015 we managed to capture a specimen of ratan goby (Ponticola ratan) in the Romanian coastal waters of the Black Sea, near the locality of Sf. Gheorghe (Tulcea County). This is the 7-th signaling for this species in Romanian coastal waters. The previous 6 specimens were recorded in the period 1960-1993, between Mangalia (Constanţa County) and Sulina (Tulcea County). The species was identified by means of meristic characters (number of scales on medial line, number of spiny and soft rays), and morphological particularities (cycloid scales on the nape area and pectoral fin joint). Also, the measurements made, confirmed that the ratio between the head length and total length, which was 33% (TL=8.70 cm vs. Head Length=2.61cm). Another morphological character, specific to this species, is the lower jaw, which exceeds in length the upper jaw. Being a Ponto-Caspian endemite, with low population along the Bulgarian and Romanian coastline, we considered it important to point out this new record. Noting that, being known the trend of sporadic migration of this species, would not be excluded that global warming causes a shift from its normal distribution area, from northern and northeastern (Black Sea) to south-west. Therefore, future research may bring more notifications regarding this species in south-western area of the Black Sea

THE ECONOMIC-MILITARY IMPORTANCE OF THE BLACK SEA – NORTH SEA CORRIDOR FOR ENSURING STABILITY IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
Valentin-Costinel TOTIR ◽  
Roxana ALEXANDRU
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
North Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
The Impact

Abstract: During history, the main channel of communication and cooperation between countries was through commerce and, consequently, through transport. Among all the transport ways, the maritime transport is the one that offers the best cost – benefits ratio. This article is addressed to all the people involved or interested in the economic and military fields and aims to highlight the importance of the Black Sea and North Sea connecting corridor in ensuring peace and stability in Europe in general and in South-Eastern Europe in special. To achieve this goal, we will review the historical conflicts among European countries for waterway control and make a descriptive analysis of the stability situation in the areas affected by them. Furthermore, using the hypothetical-deductive method, we will highlight the manner in which the connection of the Black Sea with the North Sea has influenced economic and military exchanges between riparian states and the impact on stability across European continent. At the end of the article, we will show how economic and military stability in south-eastern Europe is influenced and threatened by geopolitical changes in the wider Black Sea region and how this stability can be maintained and strengthened due to the great possibilities for economic cooperation among the countries of Western and South-Eastern Europe. The novelty of this approach is that it aims to analyze the importance of the Black Sea-North Sea channel in the context of fundamental changes in the politico-military situation in South-East Europe, generated by the expansion of the Russian Federation and the conflict between Turkey and Greece, NATO member countries.

Some Observations on the Biology and the Ecology of a Venus Striatula Population in the Bay of Douarnenez, Brittany

1985 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 889-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Guillou ◽  
P. G. Sauriau
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Fine Sand ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
Lofoten Islands ◽  
Muddy Sediments ◽  
Latitudinal Range

INTRODUCTIONVenus striatula (da Costa) (= Venus gallina L.) occurs in high densities in shallow water on a bottom of clean fine sand in the Bay of Douarnenez. The environmental conditions are characterized by an obvious sediment instability due to a high exposure to westerly swells (Guillou & Le Moal, 1978). This species is preferentially distributed in the fine sands (Petersen, 1913; Thorson, 1957), but is relatively tolerant towards certain ecological factors and so is sometimes found in very muddy sediments. It also shows an extended latitudinal range, since it is recorded from the Lofoten Islands to the Canaries, in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (Tebble, 1966).

scholarly journals TAX INSTRUMENTS OF INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT STIMULATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND NATIONAL REALITIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1(66)) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
B.V BURKINSKYI ◽  
O.I. LAIKO ◽  
V.P TALPA
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Regulatory Function ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Tax Regulation

Topicality. The urgency of the problem of tax instruments using in the role of means for stimulation of investment activity and of means for creating of a favorable investment climate nowadays grows due to the need for additional resources that are to be involved in the socio-economic development of Ukraine, as well as through the progress of administrative reform, which creates new opportunities for the use of taxes as tools for the stimulating of investment development. Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the expediency of studying tax instruments as means for the stimulating of investment development, identifying of active and effective mechanisms for the attracting of investment funds for the development of the Ukrainian economy, taking into account international experience. Research results. The article thematically dedicated to the use of tax instruments for maintain of competitive investment policies at the regional, sub-regional, national levels, improving the investment climate in the region. The instruments are integrated into the mechanism with help of general conceptual idea - the ensuring of favorable conditions for the conducting of economic activity through the use of preferential indirect instruments that do not create differentiation between territories and entities, however, contribute to the renewal of capital of the entities. The European model of tax incentives for activation of foreign investments in Ukraine and the Black Sea region is considered and the main factors that have caused insufficient functional significance of tax instruments to stimulate investment development and to provide capital intensification are determined. There are also considered the American model of tax regulation of foreign investment, as well as the Asian model of tax regulation of foreign investment. The mechanism of combination of regulatory instruments in a single set, include measures of tax preferential support, organizational, guarantee-oriented support of investment projects realization on the territory of the Ukrainian Black Sea region, ways to increase the level of local budgets' self-incomes, to introduce the possibility of the determining and applying rates of taxes by local authorities self-governance within the limits set by the Tax Code of Ukraine. Conclusions. Strategic directions for the stimulating of business activity at the national and regional levels are substantial, but for this purpose, appropriate institutional support is required, namely, the relevant changes to the articles of the Tax Code of Ukraine. The prospects for future research in the field of regulation of investment activities are related with the formation of an institutional environment for the implementation of the regulatory function of taxes, the justification of the investment-efficient structure of the tax system.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Maritime Archaic Indian and Intermediate Indian Site Distribution in Labrador

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Brake
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Indian Populations ◽  
Site Distribution

This paper is concerned with Maritime Archaic Indian and Intermediate Indian cultures in Labrador and the differences in site distribution patterns between these cultural periods. A brief summary of what is currently known about each culture is presented followed by an examination and comparison of site distribution. All known Maritime Archaic Indian and Intermediate Indian sites in Labrador are considered here. It is shown that over 91% of known Labrador Maritime Archaic Indian sites are located on the coast. In contrast, 56% of known Intermediate Indian sites in Labrador are found in the interior. These results support suggestions that the beginning of the Intermediate Indian period (approximately 3500 B. P.) was a time of change for Indian populations in Labrador and that the interior became much more important for Indian groups at that time (Fitzhugh 1972; Nagle 1978; Tuck n.d.). The possible meanings of these differences in site distribution patterns are discussed and suggestions for future research on this topic are given.

Evgeny Khvalkov, The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region: Evolution and Transformation. Routledge Research in Medieval Studies, 11. New York and London: Routledge, 2018, xiv, 443 pp., 10 fig., 7 tables.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 482-484
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Region Evolution

Our current and very urgent goal is to transform Medieval Studies into Global Medieval Studies, a thorny, challenging, maybe also daunting task, but one that we cannot turn away if we want to progress in our field. In fact, it does not matter whether we want to go that route or not; if we want to understand the Middle Ages both holistically and in specifics, we must simply accept that many people (merchants, soldiers, diplomats, artists, craftsmen, preachers, rulers, scholars, etc.) traveled not only throughout Europe, but also far beyond those limits, and encountered in that way countless other people who arrived from other directions. One most promising area of investigation that has already been long recognized is the group of merchants traveling to the Mongol court, prime among them Marco Polo. But he, his brothers, and numerous other individuals were, after all, only exceptions, and the Chinese, for instance, did not demonstrate any real interest in the West, apart from the Arabic world. However, if we turn to the Black Sea, an entirely different situation emerges that proves to be highly promising for future research.

scholarly journals Citizenship, Nation-and State-Building: The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913

2002 ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Iordachi
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Danube Delta ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
The West ◽  
The North

Situated in the northeastern extremity of the Balkan Peninsula, between the lower Danube and the Black Sea, the historical province of Dobrogea has a highly individualized geographical character. The arid steppes in the middle of the province are surrounded by an extensive seacoast in the east, the vast Danube delta in the north, the fertile shores of the Danube in the west, and by the Bulgarian mainland in the south, making up a broad ribbon of land, a kind of "irregular oblong with a waist" (see Map I, page ll).This advantageous geopolitical and commercial location accounts for Dobrogea's tumultuous history. From fifteenth century, Dobrogea functioned as a borderland of the Ottoman Empire and one of the most advanced Muslim military bastions in Southeastern Europe.

scholarly journals The Neogene lakes on the Balkan land

2012 ◽  
pp. 37-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezda Krstic ◽  
Ljubinko Savic ◽  
Gordana Jovanovic
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Geological Data ◽  
The South ◽  
Deep Subsurface ◽  
Upper Miocene ◽  
The North

Palaeogeographic maps of the lacustrine Miocene and Pliocene have been constructed according to all the known geological data. The Lakes of the Balkan Land, depending on the tectonics, migrated due to causes from the deep subsurface. There are several phases of the Miocene lakes: the lowermost Miocene transiting from marine Oligocene, Lower, Middle, Upper Miocene covering, in patches, the main part of the Land. The Pliocene lakes spread mostly to the north of the Balkan Land and covered only its marginal parts. Other lake-like sediments, in fact freshened parts of the Black Sea Kuialnician (Upper Pliocene), stretched along the middle and southern portions of the Balkan Peninsula (to the south of the Balkan Mt.). Subsequently, the Balkan Peninsula was formed.

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