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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi +15 more
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Through the Balkan States: Home movies as travel texts and tourism histories in the Mediterranean, c.1923-39 [PDF]
, 2006 Newly available lightweight cine camera equipment provided affluent British holidaymakers with an innovative travel accessory in the mid 1920s. Travel narratives produced by early camera-touting enthusiasts may be likened to preceding forms of travel ...
Norris Nicholson, Heather
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Holocene vegetation change and fire–plant diversity shifts in Mediterranean France
Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Changes in fire activity are recognized as a major threat to biodiversity and vegetation communities across the Mediterranean Basin. However, long‐term fire–vegetation interactions remain poorly investigated. Here, we combine a high‐resolution charcoal record with pollen data from the “Étang des Aulnes” lake (southern France) to reconstruct ...
Cécile Latapy +13 more
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Facts About Ski Tourism. The Case of Ski Resorts in Romania and Bulgaria [PDF]
Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2020 The research focuses on the tourism planning specific to winter sports in Romania and Bulgaria, detailing the tourism specific to alpine skiing in Poiana Brașov, Predeal and Sinaia (Romania), Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo (Bulgaria).
Razvan Tiberiu Radu, Razvan Tiberiu Radu
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Battles of Pleven: A Glorious Defeat in Military History
Journal of Universal History Studies, 2023 The Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878 was one of the most important events that marked the last century of the Ottoman Empire. In this war, the armies of both sides faced each other on the Balkan and Caucasian fronts, and the Balkan Front was the war’s ...
Umut Akcakaya
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw +3 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina +9 more
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Floristic characteristics of Kobilica ridge, Šar planina mt. [PDF]
Zaštita prirode, 2017 Kobilica is a ridge of the Šar Mountains located in the far south of Serbia over which the international border with FYR Macedonia stretches. Numerous factors - being located in the central Balkan area, refugial character, diverse environmental ...
Duraki Šemija +2 more
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Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.Graphical representation of ethnomedical uses, major bioactive compounds, pharmacological potential and toxicological risks of Ruta graveolens L. ABSTRACT Ruta graveolens L. is widely used in traditional European, Asian, African, and South American medicine for digestive, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, and reproductive disorders.
Tetiana Serhiienko +3 more
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Sworn Virgins of the Balkan Highlands
Traditiones, 2022 Once widely spread in the Dinaric Mountains part of the Balkan Peninsula swearing to virginity was a social and cultural custom recorded among all groups inhabiting the area.
Marija Brujić, Vladimir Krstić
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