Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of Mobility Between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E.

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Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of Mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300–1500 C.E. Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Migration History of the Afro-Eurasian Transition Zone, c. 300-1500: An Introduction (with a Chronological Table of Selected Events of Political and Migration History) 2 Introductory Essay: Migration-Travel-Commerce-Cultural Transfer. The Complex Connections Byzantium-Kiev-Novgorod-Varangian Lands, 6-14th Century Part 1: Migration in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, 6th-10th Century 3 On the Slavic Immigration in the Byzantine Balkans 4 Migrations in the Archaeology of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages (Some Comments on the Current State of Research) Part 2: Migrations and Mobility into and within the Byzantine World 5 Migrating in the Medieval East Roman World, ca. 600-1204 6 Patterns of Turkish Migration and Expansion in Byzantine Asia Minor in the 11th and 12th Centuries 7 Migration and Ethnicity in the Venetian Territories of the Eastern Mediterranean (13th to 15th Century) Part 3: Migration in Early Islamic Societies 8 Iranians in 9th Century Egypt 9 The Last Revolt of Bashmur (831 a.d.) in Coptic and Syriac Historiography 10 The Migration of Syrian and Palestinian Populations in the 7th Century: Movement of Individuals and Groups in the Mediterranean Part 4: Diasporas and Migrations across the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone 11 The Aksumites in South Arabia: An African Diaspora of Late Antiquity 12 Aristocrats, Mercenaries, Clergymen and Refugees: Deliberate and Forced Mobility of Armenians in the Early Medieval Mediterranean (6th to 11th Century a.d.) Part 5: Forced Mobility and Slavery 13 Migration and Enslavement: A Medieval Model 14 Mamluks in Abbasid Society General Maps Select Bibliography on the Medieval Migration History of the Afro-Eurasian Transition Zone Index of Persons and Names Index of Subjects Geographical Index List of Places Displayed on Map 15.1. and their Geographical Coordinates