Venetian Cyprus
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Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year history of the port of Famagusta in Cyprus. This historic harbour city was at the heart of the... more
In the course of 1580, Agostino Valier, a bishop of Verona, conducted an apostolic visitation to Istrian dioceses. The report on the visitation represents an historic source of great importance for the knowledge of late 16th century... more
The publication of the most significant collections of historical sources regarding Venetian rule in the Levant (Greece and Eastern Mediterranean) remains a standing request of the research community. These sources include final Reports... more
The War of Cyprus (1570–71) took place within the framework of the Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War, which was concluded with the naval Battle of Lepanto and the peace treaty signed by the two contenders in 1573. This essay deals with the... more
Γαληνοτάτη. Tιμή στη Χρύσα Μαλτέζου, επιμ. Γωγώ Κ. Βαρζελιώτη – Κ. Γ. Τσικνάκης, Αθήνα, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών/Τμήμα Θεατρικών Σπουδών – Μουσείο Μπενάκη, 2013, 31-87 (in Greek).
The author analyzes the monumental topography of Paphos, a harbor town in western Cyprus, during the Lusignan (A.D. 1191/2-1474/89) and the Venetian periods (A.D. 1474/89-1570/1). The analysis was based on narrative sources (primarily... more
Since Fredrik Barth’s work on the development, maintenance and negotiation of group boundaries (1969), scholars have been focusing on the relationship between identity and boundary construction, especially in multi-confessional and... more
https://www.fhs.unizg.hr/images/50041648/Hrvatski%20pomorski%20regesti_RMC_III.pdf The "Croatian Maritime Regesta – the 18th Century" 3rd vol. are a valid source for History of Adriatic and different nation's travellers (Italians,... more
Medieval and Renaissance Cyprus was a fascinating place of ethnic, cultural, and religious encounters. Following almost nine centuries of Byzantine rule, Cyprus was conquered by the Crusaders in 1191, becoming (until 1571) the most... more
Lepanto, fires in the twilight Venice and the Ottomans, 1416-1571 The Ottomans: for centuries the enemy par excellence of the Venetian name, the geopolitical rivals capable of stifling long-distance trade, before the Portuguese cut their... more
Οι δύο τελευταίες δεκαετίες της βενετικής κυριαρχίας στην Κύπρο σηματοδοτούνται από εντάσεις και κινήματα των αγροτικών πληθυσμών και των λαϊκών στρωμάτων των πόλεων, τα οποία πυροδοτούνται αφενός από τη διαιώνιση του αναχρονιστικού... more
Η εβραϊκή παρουσία στον ελλαδικό χώρο (4ος-19ος αι.), επιμ. Άννα Λαμπροπούλου – Κώστας Τσικνάκης (Διεθνή Συμπόσια 12), Αθήνα, Ινστιτούτο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών – Εταιρεία Μελέτης Ελληνικού Εβραϊσμού, 2008, 155-170 (in... more
Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year history of the port of Famagusta in Cyprus. This historic harbour city was at the heart of the... more
Graduate students, scholars and practitioners in the study and conservation of Venice and its former territories are invited to apply for grants towards travel to undertake historical and contemporary research in Venice and/or the former... more
The scarce information that we find in the Venetian sources concerning the social status of paroikoi (villeins, parici) during the Venetian occupation of Cyprus (15th-16th c.) paints a dark picture of the Venetian administration’s aims... more
Taking the Venetian domination over the island of Cyprus as an exemplar, this book is addressed to a wider audience, as well as to students in the faculties of Arts and Humanities who wish to familiarize themselves with the period of... more
In base ai 16.000 documenti dei "Regesti marittimi croati del Settecento", Fonti documentarie, voll. I-III, viene data una radiografia dei porti, delle rotte, dei tipi di navi con cui si viaggiava nel Settecento. Grazie ai documenti e'... more
The War of Cyprus (1570–71) took place within the framework of the Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War, which was concluded with the naval Battle of Lepanto and the peace treaty signed by the two contenders in 1573. This essay deals with the... more
Venezia, Creta e Cipro: dei, regine, santi e sultani. Nuove prospettive di ricerca interdisciplinare, Pomeriggio di studi a cura di Lorenzo Calvelli e Caterina Carpinato
Lunedì 2 maggio 2016, ore 15.00. Venezia, Ateneo Veneto, Aula Magna
Lunedì 2 maggio 2016, ore 15.00. Venezia, Ateneo Veneto, Aula Magna
Πρακτικά του Διεθνούς Συμποσίου: Kύπρος - Bενετία. Kοινές ιστορικές τύχες (Aθήνα, 1-3 Mαρτίου 2001), επιμ. Χρύσα Α. Μαλτέζου (Συνέδρια 6), Bενετία, Eλληνικό Iνστιτούτο Bυζαντινών και Mεταβυζαντινών Σπουδών Bενετίας –Kυπριακή... more
Εφημ. H Kαθημερινή-Eπτά Hμέρες, Kυριακή 1 Nοεμβρίου 1998: Σταυροφορίες, επιμ. Κωστής Λιόντης, 29-32 (in Greek).
Recensione di Giandomenico Zanderigo Rosolo a "Il sale in viaggio da Venezia al Cadore. Cinque secoli di storia attraverso le vicende dei magazzini cadorini di Portobuffolè e Serravalle".
The Venetian political writer Paolo Paruta presented Filippo Mocenigo, the last Catholic Archbishop of Nicosia (Cyprus) before the Ottoman conquest, as an important character of his 1579 dialogue Della Perfettione della vita politica.... more
Unpublished until now, the possibly monastic church of Saint Paraskevi (or Saint Perpyros), situated on the northern slope of the Pentadaktylos mountain range in the Cypriot district of Akanthou, is a sixteenth-century ruin of a rather... more
Baili, civitani and banieri: these were the figures – expression of the local society – involved in the government of subordinate jurisdictions in the island of Cyprus, where no patrician officials were sent by Venice. By focusing on the... more