Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires

Ulrich Hofmeister is a historian at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he leads a research project on Russian city planning during the eighteenth century. His research interests include the imperial history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as well as Russian urban history. He has published a monograph on Russian notions of an imperial civilizing mission in Central Asia (Die Bürde des Weißen Zaren, 2019). Florian Riedler is the scientific coordinator of the research network Transottomanica at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include Ottoman urban history, migration and mobility studies, and the history of infrastructure in the Ottoman Balkans. Among his latest publications is the co-edited volume The Balkan Route: Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput, 2021.

Part 1: Conceptual Opening

2. Cities, Empires, and Eastern Europe: Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires

Ulrich Hofmeister

Part 2: Manifestations of the Imperial in Urban Space

3. The Imperial Palaces in Comparative Perspective: Topkapı, Kremlin, and Hofburg

Nilay Özlü

4. Temeswar as an Imperial City in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century

Robert Born

5. Imperial Power, Imperial Identity, and Kazan Architecture: Visualizing the Empire in a Nineteenth-Century Russian Province

Gulchachak Nugmanova

6. Bound by Difference: The Merger of Rostov and Nakhichevan-on-Don into an Imperial Metropolis during the Nineteenth Century

Michel Abesser

Part 3: The City as a Palimpsest of Empires

7. Guarding the Imperial Border: The Fortress City of Niš between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, 1690–1740

Florian Riedler

8. Empire after Empire: Austro-Hungarian Recalibration of the Ottoman Čaršija of Sarajevo

Aida Murtić

9. Lemberg or L’vov: The Symbolic Significance of a City at the Crossroads of the Austrian and the Russian Empires

Elisabeth Haid-Lener

10. Kars: Bridgehead of Empires

Elke Hartmann

11. (De)constructing Imperial Heritage: Moscow Zaryadye in Times of Transition

Olga Zabalueva