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Geschichte Südosteuropas: Vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. [History of Southeast Europe: From the Early Middle Ages to the Present]. Regensburg 2011.
A comprehensive work written collectively by 14 international experts, the Geschichte Südosteuropas is one of the most extensive treatments of the history of the whole region in one volume. Through intensive editing the individual chapters were joined into one interlinked text. The large, supplementary map section (with a total of 35 original thematic maps) represents a preliminary substitute for a historical atlas of Southeast Europe that has yet to appear. Likewise, the book served as a pilot project for the multi-volume handbook project on the history of Southeast Europe. From the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 25 June 2012: “... essential for years to come and as equally indispensable for politicians, diplomats and journalists as for students and historians.”

Historische Bücherkunde Südosteuropa. [Historical Bibliography Southeast Europe].
The Historische Bücherkunde Südosteuropa was published as a commentated bibliography on the history of the entire region of Southeast Europe, including its great empires – the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy. The annotated bibliographical references were limited to the period from the 6th century to the year 1918. >>>

Südosteuropa-Bibliographie. [Southeast Europe Bibliography]. Munich 1956–1992.
When the Institute for Southeast European Studies began to work on bibliographies on Southeast Europe in the early 1950s, it was difficult to gain access to literature and book data from countries behind the Iron Curtain, not only because of the Cold War, but also because the research instrument that is most commonly used nowadays – the Internet – did not yet exist. >>>