Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe

DENNIS P. HUPCHICK is an Associate Professor of History at Wilkes University, Pennsylvania, where he also directs the East European and Russian Studies Program. He is the author of Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe (SMP, 1995), Culture and History in Eastern Europe (SMP, 1994), co-author of The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe (Palgrave, 2001), author of The Balkans (Palgrave, 2001), and The Bulgarians in the Seventeenth Century (1993).HAROLD E. COX is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Wilkes University, Pennsylvania. He is the former editor of Pennsylvania History and has written extensively on the history of urban transportation and the development of inner cities in the nineteenth century. He has created historical maps for various publications since the early 1950s.

'...a useful text and library reference. Hupchick's descriptions are lucid, and Cox's cartography is clear and well-coordinated with the narrative...a crucial publication on East Central Europe and the Balkans that can serve as a supplemental volume or stand alone as a short text.' - Nationalities Papers '...a valuable tool for the classroom and the general public.' - MultiCultural Review '...a well organized, easy-to-use set of fifty maps...well-written...A welcome publication...' - Choice '...an admirable summary of the history of the area, tracing the complex ethnic and cultural interactions of the peoples of Eastern Europe. It also offers an excellent background for the understanding of the current problems experienced in the region...Recommended for collections of all types...' - Booklist

• Preface General Key to the Maps INTRODUCTORY MAPS Eastern Europe-Political, 1996 Eastern Europe-Physical Eastern Europe-Demographic Eastern Europe-Cultural PART I: EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD (to the 13th Century) The Division of the Roman Empire, Late 3rd Century The Barbarian Migrations, 4th-6th Centuries The East Roman Empire under Justinian I, Mid-6th Century Slavic and Turkic Invasions, 6th-8th Centuries Eastern Europe, Mid-9th Century The Rise of Bulgaria, 8th-10th Centuries Constantinople, 11th Century The Balkans, Early 11th Century The Rise of Hungary, 10th-13th Centuries The Rise of Poland, Late 10th-13th Centuries Eastern Europe, Mid-11th Century The Balkans, Late 12th Century PART II: LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD (13th-15th Centuries) The Latin Empire of Constantinople, 1214 The Rise of Serbia, 13th-14th Centuries Eastern Europe, Mid-13th Century Eastern Europe, Mid-14th Century Prague, Mid-14th-15th Centuries The Rise of the Ottoman Empire, 13th-15th Centuries The Expansion of Poland, 14th-15th Centuries PART III: EARLY MODERN PERIOD (16th-18th Centuries) Apex of the Ottoman Empire, Mid-16th Century Istanbul, 16th-17th Centuries Apex and Decline of Poland, 16th-17th Centuries The Rise of the Habsburgs, 16th-17th Centuries Ottoman Decline, 17th-18th Centuries The Partitions of Poland, 1772-1795 PART IV: PERIOD OF NATIONALISM (19th Century-1918) Eastern Europe, 1809 Eastern Europe, 1815 The Balkans after the Serb and Greek Revolutions, 1830 Revolutions in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1849 The Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich, 1867 The Balkans, 1878-1885 The Macedonian Question The Balkans, 1908 Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1908-1914 The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 Eastern Europe, 1914 Eastern Europe during World War I PART V: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS (1918-1999) Eastern Europe, 1923 Independent Poland, 1920-1922 Hungary after Trianon, 1920-1939 Romania after Trianon, 1920-1938 The Transylvanian Question Versailles-Created Yugoslavia, 1921-1941 Czechoslovakia and Munich, 1920-1939 Eastern Europe during World War II, 1938-1944 Eastern Europe, 1948-1991 Wars of Yugoslav Succession, 1991-1995 The 'Kosovo Crisis,' 1999 Selected Bibliography Index