Journals and Periodicals
Ponto-Baltica
The title of this Review, founded in 1981, refers to the Ponto-Baltic Isthmus, a term indicating the space in Europe between the Black (or Pontic) and the Baltic seas. This title was chosen to showcase the languages and cultures covering a large geographical area including Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, ex-Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland.
One of the aims of this Review is to illustrate the problems concerning the language, literature, ethical and political history, popular traditions and characteristic material culture of each of these nations individually or shared, both in the present and in the remote past. The aim is to throw light on prehistory, or, more so, to bring to light the history of ancient populations and of those who followed later, including the modern nations that gradually arose in these vast spaces that stretch from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea.
A further aim of the review is to provide a stimulus to extend the linguistic and cultural comparison beyond the well-tried supranational groupings, developing connections not only between the East and West, but also between North and South.