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Railway Development and the Economic and Political Integration of the Balkans, c. 1850-2000
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Stanev Stanev, Kaloyan; Alvarez Palau, Eduard; Martí Henneberg, Jordi
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This article uses the evolution of the railways to examine the relationship between the level of economic integration and external political influences in the Balkans over a period of 150 years. The analysis focuses on two key themes: the long-term spatial evolution of the railway network and external influences on this infrastructure. To undertake this territorial analysis, we first established a Historical Geographical Information System (HGIS) that allowed us to interpret data on the evolution of the railway network and then related this to other data on themes such as changing international borders and the nationality of investment.
We would like to acknowledge the help that we received from the referees and Dr Toader Popescu and to thank them for their comments on this article. The research leading to these results was provided by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (grant number CSO2015-65733-P); the EU (Jean Monnet grant number 586912-EPP-
1-2017-1-ES-EPPJMO); and ICREA, Generalitat de Catalunya (grant number 2013-2017). This work was carried out while Jordi Martí-Henneberg was a visiting scholar at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge |
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(c) Taylor & Francis, 2017
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Article
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Taylor & Francis
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