Investigations of the late Quaternary morphotectonic evolution of the Balkan Peninsula East Part

AbstractThe East Balkan Peninsula Area was a part from the Tethys Ocean until 72 000 000 years. The pre Maestrichtian geologic-tectonic pattern of cockle of the East Balkan Peninsula Area wasn’t built on the Europe Continental Massif. The modern East Balkan Peninsula Relief is forming during the Late Quaternary time. The East Balkan Peninsula Margin coincides with the border between the Bulgarian and Moesian Continental Microplates from the west and the Black Sea Oceanic Microplatte to the east. This border present the Neo Europe West Passive Continental Margin in the area of the last Tethys Oceanic Fragment – it Black Sea Oceanic Gulf.

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The West Black Sea passive continental margin in the east part of Balkan Peninsula

Acta Scientifica Naturalis ◽

10.2478/asn-2018-0014 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 102-107

Author(s):

Svetla Stankova ◽

Tzanko Tzankov ◽

Rosen Iliev

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Continental Margin ◽

Balkan Peninsula ◽

Fault Zones ◽

Passive Continental Margin ◽

Shelf Zone ◽

The Black Sea ◽

East Part ◽

Sea Bottom ◽

Early Paleogene

Abstract The Black Sea Neozoic passive continental margin marks the natural „bridge” between the Moesian and Bulgarian continental microplates and the Black Sea oceanic microplatte. It was coming in to being after the saturation between the terrains which are composed the Neo Europe south east part during the Early Paleogene. The subaerial part of the margin includes the most east parts of the South Moesian, Hemus, and Upper Thracian and Sakar-Strandzha morphostructural zones. The subaquatic part of the margin is composed by the consequently orderly step lower to the Black Sea bottom: high shelf zone, lover shelf zone, continental slope and continental foot. The Black Sea Neozoic passive continental margin is characterized by low seismic activity. It is concentrated in some fault zones.

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Citizenship, Nation-and State-Building: The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913

The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies ◽

10.5195/cbp.2002.93 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 86 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Constantin Iordachi

Keyword(s):

Fifteenth Century ◽

Ottoman Empire ◽

Black Sea ◽

Balkan Peninsula ◽

State Building ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Danube Delta ◽

Southeastern Europe ◽

The West ◽

The North

Situated in the northeastern extremity of the Balkan Peninsula, between the lower Danube and the Black Sea, the historical province of Dobrogea has a highly individualized geographical character. The arid steppes in the middle of the province are surrounded by an extensive seacoast in the east, the vast Danube delta in the north, the fertile shores of the Danube in the west, and by the Bulgarian mainland in the south, making up a broad ribbon of land, a kind of "irregular oblong with a waist" (see Map I, page ll).This advantageous geopolitical and commercial location accounts for Dobrogea's tumultuous history. From fifteenth century, Dobrogea functioned as a borderland of the Ottoman Empire and one of the most advanced Muslim military bastions in Southeastern Europe.

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A new cave-dwelling species of the genus Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini) from the West Caucasus

Zoosystematica Rossica ◽

10.31610/zsr/2011.20.1.48 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 48-53

Author(s):

I.A. Belousov ◽

A.G. Koval

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Black Sea ◽

Life Form ◽

Intermediate Position ◽

The Black Sea ◽

The West ◽

Black Sea Coast ◽

A New Species ◽

Sea Coast

A new species of the genus Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928, C. maximovitchi sp. nov., is described from the Akhunskaya Cave and Labirintovaya Cave, both located in the Akhun Karst Massif on the Black Sea Coast of the West Caucasus (Krasnodar Territory, Russia). The new species is rather isolated within the genus Cimmerites and occupies an intermediate position between species related to C. kryzhanovskii Belousov, 1998 and species close to C. vagabundus Belousov, 1998. Though both C. maximovitchi sp. nov. and C. kryzhanovskii are still known only from caves, these species are quite similar in their life form to other members of the genus which are all true endogean species.

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Modern transformation of the continental margin of the Black Sea near the village of Dzhubga

Oceanology ◽

10.1134/s0001437017040063 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 589-592

Author(s):

Yu. D. Evsyukov ◽

V. I. Rudnev

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Continental Margin ◽

The Black Sea ◽

The Village

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Level of relics in high-mountain flora of isolated Fisht-Oshten Massif and Chernomorskaya Chain

Plant Biology and Horticulture: theory, innovation ◽

10.36305/2019-2-151-21-29 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 21-29

Author(s):

I. N. Timukhin ◽

B. S. Tuniyev

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

The Black Sea ◽

High Mountain ◽

The West ◽

The Caucasus ◽

The Holocene ◽

Alpine Species ◽

High Level ◽

First Time ◽

Relic Species

For the first time the level of relics of the high-mountain flora of the northwestern edge of the highlands of the Caucasus has been established. The Fisht-Oshten Massif and the Black Sea Chain have a uniquely high level of relics - 51.0% (617 species), with a predominance of Tertiary-relic species - Rt - 41.2% (498 species). The second largest representation is a group of Holocene relics - Rx - 7.3% (88 species), the minimum represented Pleistocene relics - Rg - 2.5% (31 species). The relic level of alpine species is one of the highest in the Caucasus and is 52.8% (338 species). Alpine species also have predominance of Pliocene relics - 46.7% (299 species), the number of glacial relics is 2.5% (16 species), the share of xerothermic relics - 3.6% (23 species). In the preservation of relic species revealed general trends, depending on the remoteness of local flora from the main diaspora on the Fisht-Oshten Massif and the modern area of the meadow belt. These trends persist in Tertiary relics, while other patterns are observed for glacial and Holocene relics. The number of glacial relics fades to the west, most clearly it can be seen in alpine species. The number of Holocene relics as much as possible on the edge areas (Fisht-Oshten Massif and Mt. Semashkho) and minimally on the central peaks of the Black Sea Chain, where the Holocene expansion of xerophyte plants was insignificant.

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‘Pre-Neolithic’ in Southeast Europe: a Bulgarian perspective

Documenta Praehistorica ◽

10.4312/dp.41.5 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. 95-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Maria Gurova ◽

Clive Bonsall

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Resource Availability ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Distribution Patterns ◽

Balkan Peninsula ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Future Research ◽

Upper Palaeolithic ◽

Southeast Europe ◽

Site Distribution

This paper discusses why large areas of the central and northern Balkans lack evidence of Mesolithic settlement and what implications this holds for future research into the Neolithization of the region. A marked shift in site distribution patterns between Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic is interpreted as a response to changing environmental conditions and resource availability. It is suggested that some important questions of the pattern, processes and timing of the transition to farming across the Balkan Peninsula may only be answered through new archaeological surveys of the Lower Danube valley and exploration of submerged landscapes along the Black Sea, Aegean and Adriatic coasts.

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Harvest of Briars

The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691196442.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 121-158

Author(s):

A. Wess Mitchell

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Ottoman Empire ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Balkan Peninsula ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Second Phase ◽

Habsburg Monarchy ◽

The West ◽

The North ◽

Third Phase

This chapter examines the competition with the Ottoman Empire and Russia, from the reconquest of Hungary to Joseph II’s final Turkish war. On its southern and eastern frontiers, the Habsburg Monarchy contended with two large land empires: a decaying Ottoman Empire, and a rising Russia determined to extend its influence on the Black Sea littorals and Balkan Peninsula. In balancing these forces, Austria faced two interrelated dangers: the possibility of Russia filling Ottoman power vacuums that Austria itself could not fill, and the potential for crises here, if improperly managed, to fetter Austria’s options for handling graver threats in the west. In dealing with these challenges, Austria deployed a range of tools over the course of the eighteenth century. In the first phase (1690s–1730s), it deployed mobile field armies to alleviate Turkish pressure on the Habsburg heartland before the arrival of significant Russian influence. In the second phase (1740s–70s), Austria used appeasement and militarized borders to ensure quiet in the south while focusing on the life-or-death struggles with Frederick the Great. In the third phase (1770s–90s), it used alliances of restraint to check and keep pace with Russian expansion, and recruit its help in comanaging problems to the north. Together, these techniques provided for a slow but largely effective recessional, in which the House of Austria used cost-effective methods to manage Turkish decline and avoid collisions that would have complicated its more important western struggles.

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The Early Expansion of the Kingdom of Mithridates VI

Empire of the Black Sea ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190887841.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 111-124

Author(s):

Duane W. Roller

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

The Black Sea ◽

The West ◽

West Side ◽

The North ◽

North Side

Mithridates VI the Great began his solidified rule by expanding his kingdom, seemingly with the goal of encircling the Black Sea. He gained possession of the ancient territory of Colchis and then strengthened his predecessors’ control of the Bosporos, on the north side of the sea. He also established a presence on the west side of the sea. The locals on the north side of the sea welcomed the king because they were constantly subject to barbarian pressures. There were also economic benefits to the Pontic kingdom in acquisition of the new territories. Mithridates also established a Pontic presence south and west of his kingdom, in Paphlagonia and Galatia. Yet such aggressive actions by the king were noticed by the Romans, even though the northern Black Sea was not in any region of their direct interest.

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