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This Cheap European Beach City With White Sands Is The Med’s Fastest Growing Destination https://www.byteseu.com/2301563/ #Albania #AlbanianRiviera #BalkanPeninsula #BALKANS #Europe #ksamil #SouthernEurope #WesternBalkans

This Cheap European Beach City With White Sands Is The Med’s Fastest Growing Destination

Share The Article Not Amalfi and its overpriced, celeb-frequented beach clubs. Nor Nice, anchored by the French Riviera…
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I do wonder how Croatians feel about "Camino".
I don't think there was ever a historical Spanish connection in Dubrovnik, Croatia, vis-a-vis the Byzantine, Venetian, and Austrian(-Hungarian) connections.
("Camino", of course, is merely a Spanish word for "road" or "way".
The Croatian word is "put", pronounced like its English homonym.)

By the way, there is another city just on the opposite side of the Balkan Peninsula, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and also over-exploited for tourism: Nesebar, Bulgaria.
It is at almost the same latitude on the west Black Sea coast, more than a thousand years older (an ancient Greek colony), and with a picturesque old part on a near-insular small peninsula.

BBC article:
An epic Dubrovnik journey that ditches the crowds
<https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260717-a-new-way-to-see-the-worlds-most-overcrowded-city>

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#UNESCOWorldHeritage

Here is a story (though "you had to be there", even though that is a trite phrase).

A sun-baked small hill rising about five metres (fifteen feet) above the surrounding cultivated field.
About ten people squatting or sitting on the ground and slowly and carefully clearing soil with small tools or their hands.
At first, there is just the ordinary surface of the soil.
Then the rim of a little pot emerges, seeing the light of day again after thousands of years.
As luck would have it, this one is even unbroken.

First the soil around it is completely cleared, eventually with brushes.
It is photographed in situ.
Its precise location is measured with a total station.
Then it is lifted (manually) and placed in a plastic bag with a piece of paper recording field data.
In the afternoon it is washed and only then it becomes quite clear whether it is decorated.
Some are, some aren't.
Some ornaments are just beautiful (think of modern abstract art).
Then the artefact is photographed again and measured.
The data is recorded in the field journal.
In the usual case when it is found broken, it is restored by gluing the pieces together, possibly filling in for missing ones.
A sketch is drawn by hand.
Eventually, it belongs in a local museum.

Such a hill is a settlement mound (also known as a tel or a tell).
It comes into existence when multiple settlements are built one after another in the same place in the course of centuries.
Rebuilding was necessary, because mud houses aren't very durable and, alas, fires happened as well.
The debris wasn't removed, just pressed into the ground and new houses were built on top of that.

This particular site is Kozareva Mogila, very near the west Black Sea coast (north of the city of Burgas, Bulgaria).
It was inhabited in the Fifth Millennium during the Eneolithic (also known as the Chalcolithic and the Copper Age).
This was the time of the earliest metallurgy (thermal extraction of metal from ore, at first copper).
Copper artefacts are rare, likely because they were valuable and rarely abandoned.
They vary from tools like axes, adzes, and awls to decorations like beads, rings, and bracelets.

(Troy is a famous settlement mound, from a much later time.)

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Fresh from the printing press.

The figure of a cow and the stylized human figure on the front cover are one half of the decoration of a large ceramic vessel from the Eneolithic (the 5th millennium).
The other half (on the back cover) consists of a similar figure of a bull and another similar human figure.
The vessel was found during archaeological excavations led by Petya Georgieva at the Kozareva Mogila settlement mound near the west Black Sea coast (north of Burgas, Bulgaria).

This volume was compiled entirely by the good will efforts of Petya’s former and present doctoral students.
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Cover design by Raymonda Peychinova

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#Thrace

Albania’s Sazan Island has been fought over for millennia—and now it’s at the center of the “Flamingo Revolution https://www.byteseu.com/2100556/ #AdriaticSea #Albania #BalkanPeninsula #Communism #history #IonianSea #Ísland #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #NavalHistory #SazanIsland #tourism

Friday read: Macedonia’s Balkan stallion and more besides https://www.byteseu.com/1641040/ #BalkanPeninsula #CarolineGilbyMW #DaneHermesWinery #IndigenousGrapes #Kamnik #Lazar #NorthMacedonia #PopovaKula #Stobi #Tikveš #UltimateCentral&EasternWineFair #VenecWinery #vranec #wine #wineries #winery

Sweet Briar Students Unearth Hidden Treasures of Ancient Albania Through Groundbreaking Archaeological Dig: Know More About it https://www.byteseu.com/1550496/ #Albania #BalkanPeninsula #DestinationNews #LatestTravelNewsOfUnitedStates #matohasanaj #Mediterranean #SweetBriarCollege #TopDestinationsInUnitedStates

This City With A Stunning Colosseum Is Europe’s Most Underrated This Fall https://www.byteseu.com/1374994/ #BalkanPeninsula #Croatia #Europe #Istria #SoutheasternEurope

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#MENAdoc:

"Ayer y hoy de la prensa en judeoespañol" by Pablo Martín Asuero

[Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2007]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/118205

#ottomanempire #press #history #judeospanish #balkanpeninsula

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"Voyager vers l'"autre" Europe: images françaises des Balkans ottomans, XVIe - XVIIIe siècles" by Raïa Zaïmova

[Istanbul: Éd. Isis, 2007]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/118218

#ottomanempire #france #history #balkanpeninsula #culturalcontact

🏔️ Discover Europe's best-kept secret! Wild Balkans = epic adventures, fewer crowds, half the price ✨

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This Underrated European Capital Set To Surge In Popularity This Summer https://www.byteseu.com/990626/ #BalkanPeninsula #BALKANS #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #Europe #Herzegovina #SoutheasternEurope