Eastern Europe

Die rote Feinkeramik von Aizanoi als lokaler Kulturträger

Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von lokaler roter Feinkeramik und importierter Sigillata

The subject of this survey is the local red glaze ware of Aizanoi found in several architectural complexes during excavations in the years 1980 to 2001. Beside the red glaze ware,...

1915 Der Völkermord an den Armeniern

Eine Zeugin berichtet

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Im 100. Gedenkjahr an den Völkermord an den Armeniern des Osmanischen Reiches liegt jetzt eines der frühesten...

Fokuspartikeln und Wortstellung im Georgischen

The topic of the book is the so called “Focus particles” and their interaction with the word order regularities in Georgian, as the most prominent representative of the south...

Ansichten des Krieges

Kampfreliefs klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit im Kulturvergleich

The study is dedicated to the visual language and the messages of reliefs showing images of battle and fight, which provided the contemporary viewers with models of explanation...

Der Recke im Tigerfell

Schota Rusthaweli. Ein altgeorgisches Poem. Deutsche Nachdichtung von Hugo Huppert

Shota Rustaveli’s „Knight in the Tiger’s Skin“ is regarded as the national epic of the Georgians. As a work of the early 13th century, it connects in an impressive way ideas of...

Aral Histories

Geschichte und Erinnerung im Delta des Amudarja

In the course of the Aral Sea catastrophe the life of the Amu Darya delta region changed radically within just a few years. The Karakalpak and German authors of this volume deal...

Divrigi

Unterwegs zur türkischen Mystik in Stein

Since the medieval building complex consisting of the Friday mosque and the psychiatric hospital was declared “World Cultural Heritage Site” in 1986 the small provincial town of...

Das Athenaheiligtum von Priene

Die Nebenbauten – Altar, Halle und Propylon – und die bauliche Entwicklung des Heiligtums

The sanctuary of Athena in the city of Priene represents the rare case of an exceptionally well preserved urban sanctuary of the Hellenistic period. This book deals with three of...

Nomad Aristocrats in a World of Empires

The papers published in this volume go back to a conference held November 2011 in Hamburg. The conference was built around the question of domination: of nomads over sedentary...

Caucasus during the Mongol Period – Der Kaukasus in der Mongolenzeit

The anthology takes a comparative approach to reconstructing the perceptions that the Armenians and Georgians developed of their Mongol conquerors in the 13th and 14th centuries....

Weise Frauen und geheimnisvolle Zeichen

Texte zum Volksglauben in Georgien

This volume is the first attempt to present omen and taboo texts from Georgia in a structured form, and to make this type of traditional culture accessible for systematic...

Feinkeramik aus Knidos vom mittleren Hellenismus bis in die mittlere Kaiserzeit (ca. 200 v.Chr. bis 150 n.Chr.)

During the time of Hellenism and of the Empire, the ancient city of Knidos was one of the most important manufacturing centers of fine tableware in the eastern Mediterranean. To...

Georgische Gegenwartsliteratur

Eine Anthologie georgisch-deutsch

This anthology illustrates the literary work of the historical development of Georgia over the last 30 years for German readers. It includes in particular such works, which - to...

Islam, State, and Society in Independent Azerbaijan

Between Historical Legacy and Post-Soviet Reality - with special reference to Baku and its environs

The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the appearance of new independent states in its place resulted in dramatic changes in geopolitics. Azerbaijan emerged as one of the new...

Kulturen am Rande Mesopotamiens: von West-Kleinasien bis zum Kaspischen Meer

Katalog der Sammlung der Abteilung »Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Vorderen Orients« an der Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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Seit dem Eintreffen der Sammlung am Institut für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Vorderen Orients 1998 wird...

Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit

Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann

The book contains 21 contributions to a colloquium held in March 2006 in honour of W. Sundermann and dealing with various aspects of the literatures in the Middle Iranian...

In den Bergen der Götter

Alte Glaubensvorstellungen, Überlieferungen und Bräuche bei den Georgiern des Kaukasus

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Der Kaukasus, jenes Randgebirge unseres Kontinents, in dem die höchsten Berge Europas aufragen, bezaubert und...

Die Geburt des Propheten Muhammad

Drei Dichtungen aus Mittelasien

This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of the 19th century. It presents three text that praise the birth of the prophet: the...

Skythika in Transkaukasien

Reiternomadische Sachkultur im archäologischen Fundkontext

This volume deals with so called scythoid finds in Transcaucasia usually interpreted as traces of nomadic invasions. On contrary, the analysis of the archaeological material shows...

Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit

Teil 1: Die Levante

The present work is the last contribution to the edition „Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes“ (RGTC). Thirteen volumes have been already published in this series and...