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The Poem of the Black Sea Project
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
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
Последние новости
- New Publication: THE NIZHYN GREEK BROTHERHOOD AND THE ‘PORT-CITY’ OF NIZHYN 17 TH – 19 TH CENTURIES, Black Sea History Working Papers, vol. 8, published by the Centre of Maritime History, Institute for Mediterranean Studies – Foundation of Research and TNEW PUBLICATION! Τhe Centre of Maritime History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH has the pleasure to announce the publication of the volume by Iannis Carras, Eugene Chernukhin and Vitalii Tkachuk (eds.), THE NIZHYN GREEK BROTHERHOOD AND THE ‘PORT-CITY’ OF NIZHYN 17 TH – 19 TH CENTURIES, Black Sea History Working Papers, vol. 8, published by the Centre of Maritime History, Institute for Mediterranean Studies – Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas.
- Call for Papers - 7th International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network (Zadar, 25-29 May 2026)
