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Georgia’s Three Unique National Scripts Although many writing systems have been developed over the years and across the world, relatively...
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Although many writing systems have been developed over the years and across the world, relatively few are still in use. As the Wikipedia map posted below shows, most countries today use either the Latin, Arabic, or Cyrillic scripts for their own national (or major regional)...
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Using “Text-On-Maps” Search to Explore the Mapping of Circassia and the Circassian Genocide As was explored in the previous GeoCurrents post, Circassia often appeared on maps of Asia and of...
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As was explored in the previous GeoCurrents post, Circassia often appeared on maps of Asia and of the world before the twentieth century. But how did the mapping of Circassia change over time? This has not been an easy question to answer, but advances in text recognition are now...
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A Scythian Origin of Philosophy? Christopher Beckwith’s Scytho-Centric Interpretation of Eurasian... Christopher Beckwith is, in my opinion, the most interesting world historian of our time. He is...
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Christopher Beckwith is, in my opinion, the most interesting world historian of our time. He is prolific, deeply erudite, and extraordinarily audacious. Although not necessarily convincing, his more outlandish claims are always thought-provoking. In his most recent book, The...
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Using GeoCurrents Customizable Maps As was promised earlier, GeoCurrents customizable base maps are now available for free downland in...
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As was promised earlier, GeoCurrents customizable base maps are now available for free downland in both Keynote and PowerPoint versions. Just click on the icon labeled “download customizable map” on the right-hand side of the homepage. Here you can find many outline political...
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The Unique Multiply Enclosed Back Sea, and the Crucial Grain Supply of Ancient Athens As noted in the previous post, the “marginal sea” concept has little utility for geo-historical...
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As noted in the previous post, the “marginal sea” concept has little utility for geo-historical analysis. More useful is the idea of what might be termed an “enclosed sea,” meaning one whose entrance to the open ocean, or strait, is narrow enough that it could have been...
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Miletus, The Black Sea, and the Origin of the Continental Scheme of Global Division I have long been interested in the origin of the idea that the world is divided into separate...
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I have long been interested in the origin of the idea that the world is divided into separate continents, having co-written a book on the topic in 1997. While currently working on the Black Sea region, I have been reminded of how central the Black Sea was to the original...
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The Circassian Genocide and the Cartographic Erasure of Circassia The current ethnographic map of the northern Caucasus mountains shows scattered groups of Circassian...
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The current ethnographic map of the northern Caucasus mountains shows scattered groups of Circassian people, now numbering roughly 750,000 in Russia. In 1850, however, the Circassians occupied the entire northwestern quadrant of the Greater Caucasus range. But as the Circassians...
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Ancient Transsexual Pot Smokers? Wildly Divergent Interpretations of Ancient Scythian Culture The Scythians, who maintained a powerful nomadic state north of the Black Sea during the classical...
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The Scythians, who maintained a powerful nomadic state north of the Black Sea during the classical period, have been interpreted in many ways. As we saw in the previous post, historian Christopher Beckwith go so far as to credit them with the origin of philosophy. Ancient Greek...
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The Black Sea Region as a Historical Focus of “Ethnic Cleansing” and Genocide The Black Sea region is not noted for its history of genocide and forced population transfers (or...
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The Black Sea region is not noted for its history of genocide and forced population transfers (or “ethnic cleansing”). Internet searches on several different engines, for example, returned very little linked to these key terms. But there is probably no other area in the world...
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What Is the Black Sea? (Part 1) The Wikipedia article on the Black Sea begins by asserting that “The Black Sea is a marginal...
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The Wikipedia article on the Black Sea begins by asserting that “The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia…” This definition is not helpful, as it obscures more than it reveals. Let us begin with the assertion that the Black...