2005-07-12
From the Media - Part 11
posted by maximilian hartmuth 20 years ago
On Friday (July 8) a new daily overnight train connection between Istanbul and Thessalonica has started operating.
Grants - Part 4
posted by maximilian hartmuth 20 years ago
The British Institute at Ankara has issued a call for applications for small grants for (pilot) projects in the field of Ottoman and Turkish Republic Studies.
Books
posted by maximilian hartmuth 20 years ago
Claimed to be the "first Croatian book on the social
history of leisure and consumer culture", the young Croatian Historian Igor Duda's study "U potrazi za blagostanjem. O povijesti dokolice i potrosackog
drustva u Hrvatskoj 1950-ih i 1960-ih" (In Pursuit of Well-Being. On History of Leisure and Consumer Society in
Croatia in the 1950s and 1960s) has been published in April 2005.
From the Media - Part 10
posted by maximilian hartmuth 20 years ago
A recent article in IWPR's Balkan Crisis Report, "Foreign raiders plunder Kosovo's heritage" reporting an alarming case in Novo Brdo, highlights the
poor protection of historic sites in the UNMIK-controlled province.
From the Media - Part 9
posted by maximilian hartmuth 20 years ago
A public art project called "Leaps of Faith", supported by the European Cultural Foundation, has been opened in the UN-controlled buffer zone dividing the Cypriot city of Nicosia.
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