JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES
JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES
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January-March 2011 <strong>JOURNAL</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>EURASIAN</strong> <strong>STUDIES</strong> Volume III., Issue 1.<br />
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Exploring the Caucasus in the 21 st Century<br />
Editors: Françoise Companjen, László Marácz, and Lia<br />
Versteegh<br />
Title: Exploring the Caucasus in the 21 st Century<br />
— Essays on Culture, History and Politics in a Dynamic<br />
Context —<br />
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press<br />
Year of publishing: 2010<br />
Language: English<br />
Number of pages: 256<br />
ISBN: 978 90 8964 183 0<br />
http://www.aup.nl/<br />
According to scholars in the Netherlands, interest in the Caucasus among the Dutch academia is<br />
limited. This is very strange considering the enormous cultural significance of the region, and its<br />
geopolitical importance in modern times. The region was and still is a major theatre of the Great Game, its<br />
latest round being the Russo-Georgian war of 2008. Taking this background into consideration it is of<br />
great importance that several scholars in the Netherlands created this anthology that provides much<br />
needed information on the cultural, historical and political aspects of this region.<br />
This edited volume contains the following 11 papers on a broad range of subjects:<br />
Chapter 1. László Marácz: Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolna (1844-1913) and the Study of Kabardian provides an<br />
overview of the life and work of one of the greatest Hungarian linguists and oriental explorers, Gábor<br />
Bálint de Szentkatolna. The paper then recounts the Hungarian expedition to the Caucasus led by Count<br />
Zichy in 1895. Among the participants we find Gábor Bálint, who there studied the Western Caucasian<br />
language Kabardian, of which he compiled a dictionary. This work retained its great significance up until<br />
now. This paper of László Marácz was published in its entirety in the April-June 2010 issue of our Journal<br />
of Eurasian Studies.<br />
Chapter 2. René Droes: The Ethnic-Political Arrangement of the Peoples of the Caucasus gives a concise but<br />
complete overview of the peoples of the Caucasus in a historical context. This chapter proves to be very<br />
valuable for all those who are interested in the history of the region but lack knowledge of it.<br />
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