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The long lasting unsolved spatial problems and the lack of a sustainable integrated transport system in Greece indicate the insufficiency of the formal planning procedures. For such complex problems, the complementary use of informal processes, like the test planning process, is especially useful. In 2015, at the initiative of ETH Zurich, three European universities (ETH Zurich, University of Patras, and National Technical University of Athens) collaborated on the pilot implementation of the test planning process revolving around the issue of the railway and spatial development in Patras, the third largest city on the Peloponnese. Such an attempt to use informal planning methods in the rather conventional milieu of Patras was directed towards creating a new planning culture in Greece. Furthermore, such a European project that enhances international cooperation and the transfer of know-how finally leads to the strengthening of European cohesion, a vital goal of any international project.

The present paper addresses the problem of locating solid waste management facilities.Specifically, it studies and proposes optimal alternative solutions for the Greek Region of Peloponnese,by examining facilities for transferring, sorting, treating and landfilling of wastes. Quantitative and qualitative databases concerning the current solid waste management at the Region have been created and used by the model. A customized mixed-integer linear network model has been developed and solved for various evaluation criteria on a single-criterion basis by the use of a location-allocation modeling framework.The solutions resulting from the parametrical application of the multicriterial method ELECTRE III are then ranked for the entire criteria-spectrum. The best alternative scenario is presented for the Region in accordance with current legislation on waste management, which maximizes environmental benefits and promotes recycling, in the frame of sustainable waste management.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe. The book describes and compares the trajectories of austerity, and the types of effects. It investigates how many (and what kind of) different responses were given to similar inputs and under the influence of what factors in order to understand if there are regularities in the way that the Mediterranean countries adopted and implemented the austerity measures and how these latter impacted on local government and LPS management and delivery. The book is a product of a sub network from the COST Action LocRef IS1207 and analyses seven countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus and Albania). Andrea Lippi is Associate Professor of Political Science, Università di Firenze, Italy. Theodore N. Tsekos is Associate Professor of Public Administration, The Institute for Technological Education of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece.--

Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, supported only be a thousand troops from Plataea, faced and overcame the might of the Persian army of King Darius I on the plain of Marathon. While this was only the beginning of the Persian Wars, and the Greeks as a while would face a far greater threat to their freedom a decade later, the victory at Marathon had untold effects on the morale, confidence, and self-esteem of the Athenians, who would commemorate their finest hour in art and literature for centuries to come. This volume, which includes twenty-one papers originally presented at a colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Philology at the University of Peloponnese, Kalamata in 2010 to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the battle, is a celebration of Marathon and its reception from classical antiquity to the present era.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a review of mega fire catastrophic phenomena and bring out some useful aspects for more effective pre‐, during and post‐disaster management of mega fires.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses two very recent (2007) mega fire cases (Peloponnese – Greece and California – USA) to provide evidence of the magnitude of this kind of disaster and how their impacts can be mitigated if certain management practices are implemented.FindingsMega fires are major catastrophic events, with multiple impacts for the communities and areas in which they happen. They are very difficult to manage, mainly owing to their magnitude. However, their negative effects and impacts can be mitigated if pre‐, during, and post‐disaster activities and measures are planned and implemented.Originality/valueThis paper could be useful to practitioners and public service managers that are responsible for the development of fire management policies and management of mega fires situations.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a rapid development of Italian communities in Greece, with their members being regarded as integral parts of local societies, especially in the Ionian Islands and the Peloponnese. This changed after the fascist Italian attack against Greece in October 1940 and the subsequent Italian occupation. Members of the Italian community were deemed as de facto enemies, with the Greek authorities deciding to immediately expel them after Greece's liberation. The removal policy, however, would also be extended to the Italians of the Dodecanese after the islands were ceded in 1947. This article will document the Italians' expulsion from Greece after the end of the Second World War by examining the different ways in which mainly the Greek state, but also the authorities in Italy and the Great Allies, handled the Italian community's fate in the unfolding Cold War. At the same time, it will also explore the policy followed and the incentives that led Athens to accept the resettlement of a number of expelled Italians in Greece in 1949.

The castle of Thermisi was built on a strategic location of Eastern Peloponnese on the abrupt ridge supervising the adjacent salt-ponds and maritime routes of Ermionis in Greece. The fortification consists of the acropolis and an external defensive wall that protects the settlement while residential relics are also lying out of the walling system. Although the first written reference dates back to the fourteenth century with probable anterior historical phases, the castle became subject to important modifications from fifteenth to eighteenth century, changing hands between Byzantines, Venetians and Ottomans. The current essay is based on recent architectural documentation material and ongoing research. It aims to supply with further analysis and detail about the site with emphasis on the post-medieval alterations that molded in a big scale the current form of the fortification. It investigates the defensive character, typology and construction evolution and the specific role that the fortification played in the controlling of salt lakes area, as well as the interrelation with the wider defensive system of the region.

Abstract. We examine the possible non-linear behaviour of potentially liquefiable layers at selected sites located within the expansion area of the town of Nafplion, East Peloponnese, Greece. Input motion is computed for three scenario earthquakes, selected on the basis of historical seismicity data, using a stochastic strong ground motion simulation technique, which takes into account the finite dimensions of the earthquake sources. Site-specific ground acceleration synthetics and soil profiles are then used to evaluate the liquefaction potential at the sites of interest. The activation scenario of the Iria fault, which is the closest one to Nafplion (M=6.4), is found to be the most hazardous in terms of liquefaction initiation. In this scenario almost all the examined sites exhibit liquefaction features at depths of 6–12 m. For scenario earthquakes at two more distant seismic sources (Epidaurus fault – M6.3; Xylokastro fault – M6.7) strong ground motion amplification phenomena by the shallow soft soil layer are expected to be observed.

The author ponders when the project of a bridge linking the cities of Rio & Antirrio, Greece, was first considered -- a decade ago, or a century ago. Perhaps this dream has always existed in spirit for those on each bank, but in 2004, the inauguration of the Charilaos Trikoupis Bridge (named after the 19th-century Greek statesman who first envisioned it) made it come true. The cable-stayed bridge -- which crosses the Gulf of Corinth near Patras to link the town of Rio on the Peloponnese to Antirrio on mainland Greece -- serves as a magnificent illustration of the fertility of the relation that unites Greece & France, & even more, Greece & the European Union. The ties of Vinci Concessions (French company participating in the construction of the auto-route of which the bridge is a part) with Greece have always rested on a principle of confidence & reciprocity. An essential actor in the European community, long the eastern frontier of its territory, Greece will always be recognized by Vinci as a strategic country. Adapted from the source document.

chapter 1 "Venetian Commercial Expansion in the eastern Mediterranean, 8th–11th centuries", in Marlia Mundell Mango, edition, Byzantine Trade, 4th–12th Centuries. The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange (Papers of the Thirty-eight Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St. John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 371–391 -- chapter 2 "The Venetians in Byzantine and Lusignan Cyprus: Trade, Settlement, and Politics", in A. Nicolaou-Konnari, edition, La Serenissima and la Nobilissima: Venice in Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice, Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 2009, pp. 59–100 -- chapter 3 "Commercio e navigazione degli Amalfitani nel Mediterraneo orientale: sviluppo e declino", in Bruno Figliuolo e Pinuccia F. Simbula, editions., Interscambi socio-culturali ed economici fra le citta marinare d'Italia e l'Occidente dagli osservatori mediterranei, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Amalfi 14–16 maggio 2011, Amalfi: Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana, 2014, pp. 89–128 -- chapter 4 "The Economic Function of the Crusader States of the Levant: a New Approach", in S. Cavaciocchi, edition, Relazioni economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico. Secc. XIII–XVIII (Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", Atti delle Settimane di Studi e altri convegni, 38/1), Firenze: Le Monnier, 2007, pp. 159–191 -- chapter 5 "Acre-Alexandria: A Major Commercial Axis of the Thirteenth Century", in Marina Montesano, edition, "Come l'orco della fiaba". Studi per Franco Cardini, Firenze: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010, pp. 151–167 -- chapter 6 "Marco Polo, His Close Relatives, and His Travel Account: Some New Insights", Mediterranean Historical Review, 21 (2006), pp. 193–218 -- chapter 7 "Byzantium, the Italian Maritime Powers, and the Black Sea before 1204", Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 100 (2007), pp. 677–699 -- chapter 8 "Mediterranean Food and Wine for Constantinople: The Long-Distance Trade, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century", in Ewald Kislinger, Johannes Koder, Andreas Kulzer, eds, Handelsguter und Verkehrswege. Aspekte der Warenversorgung im ostlichen Mittelmeerraum (4. bis 15. Jahrhundert) (Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Denkschriften, 388. Band), Wien, 2010, pp. 127–147 -- chapter 9 "Rural Exploitation and Market Economy in the Late Medieval Peloponnese", in Sharon E. J. Gerstel, edition, Viewing the Morea. Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese, Harvard University Press, 2013, pp. 213–275 -- chapter 10 "Jews and Christians in Venetian Crete: Segregation, Interaction, and Conflict", in Uwe Israel, Robert Jutte, Reinhold C. Mueller, editions., "Interstizi": Culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei suoi domini dal medioevo all'eta moderna (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Ricerche 5), Roma: Storia e Letteratura, 2010, pp. 239–279.

Reclaiming the Past examines the post-antique history of Argos and how the city's archaeological remains have been perceived and experienced since the late eighteenth century by both local residents and foreign visitors to the Greek Peloponnese. The first western visitors to Argos—a city continuously inhabited for six millennia—invariably expected to encounter landscapes described in classical texts—yet what they found fell far short of those expectations. At the same time, local meanings attributed to ancient sites reflected an understanding of the past at odds with the supposed expertise of classically educated outsiders. Jonathan M. Hall details how new views of Argos emerged after the Greek War of Independence (1821–1830) with the adoption of national narratives connecting the newly independent kingdom to its ancient Hellenic past. With rising local antiquarianism at the end of the nineteenth century, new tensions surfaced between conserving the city's archaeological heritage and promoting urban development. By carefully assessing the competing knowledge claims between insiders and outsiders over Argos's rich history, Reclaiming the Past addresses pressing questions about who owns the past

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In the new hierarchy of space created by the Greek Revolution, Nafplio acquired a prominent position and soon replaced Tripolitsa as the preeminent administrative center of the fledgling state. Declared by law as the seat of the administration in September 1823, Nafplio was a stronghold during the incessant infighting that characterized the Greek struggle for independence. From June 1824 (when its fortress was handed over to the government), Nafplio served as the political and military center of the revolutionary territory. Administrative officials, politicians, primates, soldiers, and an influx of refugees thronged the city, creating conditions for overpopulation, at a time when the Ottoman–Egyptian commander Ibrahim Pasha was advancing on rebel strongholds in the Peloponnese. Based on voluminous archival records, this essay examines the policing projects carried out by the revolutionary authorities between 1825 and 1826 to address public order and security issues facing the city. The essay demonstrates that in the space of two intense years of political and military struggle, enclosed and overcrowded Nafplio became a laboratory for developing civil administration and the creation of a policed capital.

Bei der Arbeit handelt es sich um Forschungen zur Topografie und Siedlungsgeschichte der Stadt Orchomenos im nordöstlichen Arkadien (in der zentralen Peloponnes) vom Neolithikum bis in die Spätantike. Für ein umfassenderes und präziseres Bild in Bezug auf die Stadt- und auch Landschaftsgeschichte der Region, wird eine Gesamtbetrachtung und Bilanz aller bis dato bekannten Fakten und Quellen - antike Autoren, Reisende der Neuzeit, Denkmäler, Epigraphik, Numismatik – erarbeitet. Dadurch wird bewiesen, dass Orchomenos die Kriterien einer antiken griechischen polis erfüllt: Es besaß ein städtisches Zentrum mit Ober- und Unterstadt, dazu eine Agora mit Bauten politischer (Hallen), religiöser (Tempel) und Unterhaltungsfunktion (Theater). Orchomenos weist mit rund 100 Quadratkilometern auch das für griechische poleis charakteristische zugehörige Umland auf. Außerdem besaß Orchomenos einen Stadtkult, eine Befestigungsmauer und ein Straßennetz, durch das es mit benachbarten Städten und Regionen auf der Peloponnes verbunden wurde. Menschliche Aktivitäten und Besiedlung lassen sich in der Region Orchomenos bereits seit dem Neolithikum nachweisen, mit Ausnahme der Dunklen Jahrhunderte. Die Blütezeit von Orchomenos ist, nach dem Spektrum des archäologischen Materials zu urteilen, in die spätklassische Zeit zu setzen. Für die vorliegende Arbeit wurde u. a. die Existenz einer Rampe am südöstlichen Mauereingang nachgewiesen. Die frühere Bearbeitung der Fundstücke aus Orchomenos konnte beispielsweise durch Metallobjekte aus dem Nationalmuseum von Athen oder eine wissenschaftliche Aufnahme der zwischen 2011 und 2014 entdeckten Neufunde erweitert werden. ; The work deals with research on the topography and settlement history of the city of Orchomenos in north-eastern Arcadia (in the central Peloponnese) from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity. An overall view and appraisal of all facts and sources known to date - ancient authors, modern travelers, monuments, epigraphs, numismatics - is compiled for a more comprehensive and precise ...

Abstract. The paper presents the kinematics of rock instability of a high limestone promontory, where the Monemvasia historical site is situated, in Peloponnese in Southern Greece. The instability phenomena poses a significant threat to the town located at the base of the slope. Rockfall episodes occurred in the past due to the relaxation of the high cliff, whereas significant undermining of the castle frontiers has been observed at the slope crest. The predominant types of instability are of planar, wedge and toppling failure of medium to large blocks. In order to investigate the existing stability conditions and decide upon the protection measures, stability and rockfall analyses were carried out for numerous slope sections under different loading conditions and protection measures were suggested. A rock-fall risk rating system is proposed, which is based on morphological and structural criteria of the rock mass and on vulnerability and consequences. The rating system is applied for individual sections along the slope and a risk map was produced, which depicted areas having different degree of risk against rockfall occurrences.

Subject of the volume are the finds uncovered during the excavations of the ÖAI in the residential area "Phournoi" of the ancient town of Lousoi in Northwest Arkadia. A short introduction to the architecture of the houses is followed by the presentation of the pottery and small finds in their chronological and functional context. This study results in important information concerning daily life, domestic culture and the economic background of the region mainly in the Hellenistic period. - Vorgelegt werden die Funde aus den Grabungen des ÖAI in zwei Häusern im Wohnviertel "Phournoi" der antiken Stadt Lousoi in Nordwestarkadien. Nach einer kurzen Bresprechung der Architektur wird das Fundmaterial in seinen chronologischen und funktionalen Zusammenhang gestellt. Daraus ergeben sich wichtige Aussagen zum täglichen Leben der Bewohner, zur Wohnkultur und zu den wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der Region vor allem im Hellenismus.