The book gives geographical, statistical and commercial data around the cities of the Danube, the Black Sea and the Azov Sea/ Το βιβλίο δίνει γεωγραφικά, στατιστικά και εμπορικά στοιχεία γύρω από τις πόλεις του Δούναβη, της Μαύρης και της Αζοφικής θάλασσας.

The book mentions the history and topography of the countries of the Black Sea/ Το βιβλίο αναφέρει την ιστορία και την τοπογραφία των χωρών της Μαύρης θάλασσας.

The book-pilot is referred to the trade and navigation of the coasts of the Black Sea/ Το βιβλίο-πιλότος αναφέρεται στο εμπόριο και τη ναυσιπλοία των ακτών της Μαύρης θάλασσας.

The book describes the rise of the commercial banking system of the areas of Azov in southern Russia/ Το βιβλίο περιγράφει την άνοδο του εμπορικοτραπεζικού συστήματος από τις περιοχές της Αζοφικής στη νότια Ρωσία.

Studies of the nineteenth-century Ottoman and Russian Empires as well as of the numerous nation-states that came into existence around the Black Sea have mostly been pursued separately. This article attempts to offer an alternative framework of analysis for the study of the Black Sea world during the nineteenth century. It starts off from Femand Braudel's approach to the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world in order to discuss whether and to what extent the Black Sea region could also be conceived as a world. Not only structural similarities but also historically-specific circumstances are emphasized for supporting the parallel drawn between the sixteenth-century Mediterranean and the nineteenth-century Black Sea. A number of further intellectual questions are raised in order to demonstrate that a holistic perspective has much to offer for re-directing academic research into more promising problem areas.

The article is a commercial and geographic reference to the cities-ports of the Black Sea/ Το άρθρο αποτελεί εμπορική και γεωγραφική αναφορά στις πόλεις-λιμάνια της Μαύρης θάλασσας.