"Mobilizing Nature: The Environmental History of the Ottoman Danubian Frontier," Vienna
12–13 March 2026
View ProgramOur team will present the DANFront project in the Digital History Seminar for the Mediterranean and the Balkans at Panteion University in Athens, Greece.
20.04.2026
Deniz Armagan Akto defended his Ph.D thesis at Bilkent University, entitled "The Ottoman Military, Socio-Economic and Administrative Order in the Lower Danube (From the Mid-15th to the End of the 16th Century): The Cases of Vidin and Nigbolu."
19.12.2025
Deniz Armagan Akto presented the paper "Ottoman Strategies for Coping with Floods on the Danube River in the 16th and 17th Centuries" at the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Uppsala, Sweden.
21.08.2025
Onur Inal has become an affiliated member of the Cluster of Excellence – Eurasian Transformations.
March 2025
Our team visited Assoc. Prof. Robyn Dora Radway's (Central European University) "Ottoman Hungary" class as guest lecturers and presented the DANFront project.
03.12.2024
Akto, Deniz Armağan and Onur İnal. "Coping with the River: Nature, Empire, and the Making of the Early Ottoman Danube." In Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure, 27–49. Edited by Stefan Dorondel and Luminita Gatejel. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.
Akto, Deniz Armağan. "Nehir ve İmparatorluk: Erken Modern Dönemde Osmanlı Devleti Yönetiminde Tuna Nehri ve Çevresel Problemlerle Mücadele." In Osmanlı'dan Günümüze İnsanın Ayak İzleri: Müdahale, Etkileşim, Mücadele, 307–334. Edited by Deniz Dölek Sever and Özlem Sert. İstanbul: Alfa, 2025.