James Pettifer is Professor of Balkan History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of numerous studies of modern Balkan history, including The Making of the Greece Crisis (2015), The Kosovo Liberation Army (2012) and The New Macedonian Question (2001). Alongside his academic work he has reported for the Times and the Wall Street Journal on Balkan issues.Miranda Vickers is an independent scholar based in the UK. She is the author of The Albanians: A Modern History (2011), The Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans (with James Pettifer, 2009) and Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity (also with James Pettifer, 2000).

Rare … The great strength of Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History is its regional focus, allowing for an in-depths analysis of multilayered historical interactions that only become visible when one zooms in to the grass-root level.

• List of MapsPreface1. The Prespa Lakes: Ecology and Human Settlement2. Prespa Lake Communities from Prehistory to the Ottoman Conquest3. The Lake Communities in the Ottoman Empire, 1380-18634. Prespa and the Struggle for Ottoman Macedonia, 1863-19145. 1914 to 1923: New Nations and New Borders Divide the Lakes6. Nivica becomes Psarades: The Construction of Greek Macedonia, 1924-19397. Prespa under the Axis Occupation, 1939-1948. Freedom and Civil Conflcit, 1945-1949: The Centrality of Prespa9. Exile and Return: The Cold War Years, 1950-199010. The Prespa Lakes: Peace and Environmental Crisis, 1991-2018Appendix I. Place Name Usage in Late Ottoman and 20th Century PrespaAppendix II. Religious and Ethnic Identities in Prespa Villages in FYROM/RMAppendix III. Some Non-Greek Terms Relating to Prespa Village ToponymsBibliographyIndex

James Pettifer is Professor of Balkan History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of numerous studies of modern Balkan history, including The Making of the Greece Crisis (2015), The Kosovo Liberation Army (2012) and The New Macedonian Question (2001). Alongside his academic work he has reported for the Times and the Wall Street Journal on Balkan issues.Miranda Vickers is an independent scholar based in the UK. She is the author of The Albanians: A Modern History (2011), The Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans (with James Pettifer, 2009) and Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity (also with James Pettifer, 2000).

Rare … The great strength of Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History is its regional focus, allowing for an in-depths analysis of multilayered historical interactions that only become visible when one zooms in to the grass-root level.

• List of MapsPreface1. The Prespa Lakes: Ecology and Human Settlement2. Prespa Lake Communities from Prehistory to the Ottoman Conquest3. The Lake Communities in the Ottoman Empire, 1380-18634. Prespa and the Struggle for Ottoman Macedonia, 1863-19145. 1914 to 1923: New Nations and New Borders Divide the Lakes6. Nivica becomes Psarades: The Construction of Greek Macedonia, 1924-19397. Prespa under the Axis Occupation, 1939-1948. Freedom and Civil Conflcit, 1945-1949: The Centrality of Prespa9. Exile and Return: The Cold War Years, 1950-199010. The Prespa Lakes: Peace and Environmental Crisis, 1991-2018Appendix I. Place Name Usage in Late Ottoman and 20th Century PrespaAppendix II. Religious and Ethnic Identities in Prespa Villages in FYROM/RMAppendix III. Some Non-Greek Terms Relating to Prespa Village ToponymsBibliographyIndex

James Pettifer is Professor of Balkan History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of numerous studies of modern Balkan history, including The Making of the Greece Crisis (2015), The Kosovo Liberation Army (2012) and The New Macedonian Question (2001). Alongside his academic work he has reported for the Times and the Wall Street Journal on Balkan issues.Miranda Vickers is an independent scholar based in the UK. She is the author of The Albanians: A Modern History (2011), The Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans (with James Pettifer, 2009) and Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity (also with James Pettifer, 2000).

Rare … The great strength of Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History is its regional focus, allowing for an in-depths analysis of multilayered historical interactions that only become visible when one zooms in to the grass-root level.

• List of MapsPreface1. The Prespa Lakes: Ecology and Human Settlement2. Prespa Lake Communities from Prehistory to the Ottoman Conquest3. The Lake Communities in the Ottoman Empire, 1380-18634. Prespa and the Struggle for Ottoman Macedonia, 1863-19145. 1914 to 1923: New Nations and New Borders Divide the Lakes6. Nivica becomes Psarades: The Construction of Greek Macedonia, 1924-19397. Prespa under the Axis Occupation, 1939-1948. Freedom and Civil Conflcit, 1945-1949: The Centrality of Prespa9. Exile and Return: The Cold War Years, 1950-199010. The Prespa Lakes: Peace and Environmental Crisis, 1991-2018Appendix I. Place Name Usage in Late Ottoman and 20th Century PrespaAppendix II. Religious and Ethnic Identities in Prespa Villages in FYROM/RMAppendix III. Some Non-Greek Terms Relating to Prespa Village ToponymsBibliographyIndex