There once was a sea that had
Beaches of wheat and islands of bread.
Everything by it was fully sublime,
Not only the Porte, but also its wine.
Circasian beauties, Moldavian pines,
Ukrainian wheat, Anatolian mines
We had them all for us and to sell,
We were just short of qualified personnel.
Odessa, Batumi, Galati, Istanbul
Had their markets so cheap and so full
That tempted you Greeks to come with your fleet
To carry the timber, the wool or the wheat.
Should we be grateful or should we be mad?
I do not speak for the rest, but I am glad.
Constantine Ardeleanu,
Second Black Sea Conference,
Constantza, May/June 2014
Τελευταία νέα
- The loss of Professor Iryna Ponomaryova, 1958-2024
Iryna Ponomaryova was a great lady. A woman full of life, radiant, smiling and always well meaning; she had made her neighbors in Rethymno happy with her little yard full of colourful flowers. Iryna was an educated and productive scholar, a beautiful and dynamic woman, a very friendly and good colleague. She will be greatly missed.
- Latest version of the new publication "Port-Cities of the northern shore of the Black Sea: Institutional, Economic and Social Development, 18th – early 20th Centuries" and two new books are available
We would like to inform you that the last version of our new publication by Evrydiki Sifneos, Oksana Υurkova and Valentina Shandra (eds), Port-Cities of the northern shore of the Black Sea: Institutional, Economic and Social Development, 18th – early 20th Centuries, Black Sea History Working Papers, volume 2, Rethymnon, 2021, has been uploaded. This last version includes the misplaced last chapter 18 “Perceptions of Odessa in a Changing World. The Rise of a Port-City and its Public Image Among the Greeks by professor Nassia Yakovaki.
