On the Borders of World-Systems: Contact Zones in Ancient and Modern Times

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Explanatioon
Introduction
	Yervand Margaryan
		Yervand Margaryan
	The Euphrates frontier in the Byzantine period
		Figure 1a. Silver dish made in honour of Heraclius for his victory against the Persians. Byzantine Medium. US, The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City (Metropolitan Museum Journal Vol. 8. 1973).
			Figure 1b. Theodore Stratilates and Theodore Tyron of Protat. between 1290 and 1310. Karyes, Fresco by Manuel Panselinos, 14th c. (Mylonas P. ‘The Protaton at Karyes and the Painter Manuel Panselinos’ (in Greek), Nea Estia, 1,089 (1972), pp. 1, 657–62).
				Figure 1c. Agii Anargiri Kastoria Fresco St George and St Demetrius.
				(https://www.alamy.com/agii-anargiri-kastoria-fresco-st-george-and-st-demetrius-image214093709, viewed 01.01. 2019).
				Figure 1d. Mosaic depicting St Demetrios, early 1113 year, Kiev (Gosudarstvennaya Tret’yakovskaya galereya.Izdaniye 2-ye; Dopolnennoye. Izdatel’stvo: AlexSoft, 2004. State Tretyakov Gallery. Creation of the 2nd; Augmented. Publisher: AlexSoft, 2004).
				Figure 1e. Saint Theodore Tiro, from Candia, Second quarter of the 15th century, egg tempera on wood, (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Theodore_Tiro_from_Candia.jpg, viewed 01.01. 2019).
				Figure 1f. Icon with Saint Demetrios.  Byzantine Medium. US, The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demetrios_icon_Met_1970.324.3.jpg, viewed 01.01. 2019).
				Figure 1g. A fresco with Saint Mercurius and Artemius of Antioch. Tsigaridas E. Manuel Panselinos. From the Holy Church of the Protaton. Thessaloniki, 2003. (http://www.eikastikon.gr/xristianika/panselinos/index_en_next.html, viewed 01.01. 2019).
				Figure 2. Roman soldiers. The Column of Trajan (Lancaster, Lynne (1999), ‘Building Trajan’s Column’, American Journal of Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America, 103 (3): 419–439).
				Figure 3. Liber de velitatione bellica (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MNQFAAAAQAAJ).
				Figure 4. Detail of the Imperial Gate mosaic in Hagia Sophia showing Leo VI the Wise.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_the_Imperial_Gate_mosaic_in_Hagia_Sophia_showing_Leo_VI_the_Wise.jpg).
				Figure 5. Clisura
				(Yilankale-fortress-errected-in-the-12th-13th-century-by-the-armenian-king-leo-ii).
				Figure 6. Goliath detail of Goliath on South-East Façade Surb Khach Church Church of the Holy Cross_Akdamar Island, Van11-th cent. (David Nicolle, ‘An introduction to arms and warfare in classical Islam’, in: Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. Robert Elgood, Lo
				Figure 7. Cataphracts. The Column of Trajan (Lancaster, Lynne 1999, ‘Building Trajan’s Column’, American Journal of Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America, 103 (3): 419–439).
				Figure 8. Byzantine Empire Themata-650.
				Figure 9. Sar-Comana.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sar-Comana.jpg).
				Figure 10. Alexander romance. Armenian illuminated manuscript of_XIV century.Venice, San Lazzaro, 424 (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Древнеармянская_переводная_литература#cite_note-_11f3e21175b5c963-4).
			Pavel Avetisyan and Arsen Bobokhyan
	Mountainous landscapes as bounded territories
	The northern gates of the Euphrates-Tigris contact zone
		Aram Kosyan
			Figure 1. Altıntepe mound.
				Figure 2. Altıntepe temple.
			Beniamin Mailyan
	‘The Caucasian Frontier’ and Terek Cossacks
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	Jewish history within the framework of frontier theory
		Vladimir Ruzhansky
			Figure 1. Judea Desert.
				Figure 2. Map of Jewish Emigration, circa 1880-1924. Courtesy of .Legacy Tree Genealogists  viewed 24 February 2019.
				Figure 3. Map of regions within the Pale. Courtesy of  Legacy Tree Genealogists  viewed 24 February 2019.
				Figure 4. Map of Israel Map Cruzin viewed 24 February 2019.
				Figure 5. Cave of the Patriarchs. Hebron.
				Figure 6. Road map of Modern Israel Bible maps viewed 24 February 2019.