Harbours of the Aegean in Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period

Thessaly, Maritime Connectivity, and the Eastern Mediterranean Seascape

By Alkiviadis Ginalis

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A comprehensive study of Aegean harbours and maritime connectivity, focusing on both major and local infrastructures. It provides a framework for interpreting coastal facilities and examines the Byzantine East's port networks. Thessaly serves as a case study, with diverse maritime landscapes and activities from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

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Contents

Preface

 

I. Introduction

The purpose and methodology of this study – State of research

The chronological and geographical framework

 

II. The Understanding and Interpretation of Harbour Sites

Introduction

Function, purpose and hierarchy of coastal installations

Characteristics and elements of harbour structures


III. The Coastal Sites of Thessaly

Introduction

The western coast of the Pagasetic Gulf

The Pelion peninsula

Aghia

The Pineios river delta

The Northern Sporades

 

IV. Conclusions: Byzantine Ports – Tradition or Innovation

The history of Thessaly’s coastal sites

The harbour architecture from the Early to the Late Byzantine periods

Port network and the hierarchy of coastal installations

 

Bibliography

About the Author

Alkiviadis Ginalis is a Byzantine Maritime Archaeologist who specialises in seafaring and harbour studies of the Late Antique and medieval periods. He obtained his BA and MA in Byzantine Studies and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and his PhD at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology of Oxford University. After a Marie-Curie Fellowship with a European Union funded research project on ‘Aegean Port networks of the Roman to Byzantine periods’, he held a Research Fellowship at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. Currently he works as a Research Lecturer for Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Head of the Archives at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute.