Utku Özer, PhD

13th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies

6-7 April 2020, Athens, Greece

Robert Ker Porter, 1696.

Ivan Aivazovsky, 1848

Greek Project of Catherine the Great : • In red, the "Neobyzantine

Empire" for her grandson Konstantin

• In blue the "Kingdom of Dacia" for Grigory Potemkin

• In yellow the compensations for the Habsburg Empire

• In blue-green those of Venice.

Horatio Nelson,1799.

“The Russians seem to me more bent on taking ports in the Mediterranean than in destroying Bonaparte in Egypt”

Kerkyra Paxos, Lefkada Ithaki Kefalonia Zakynthos Kythira

Ivan Aivazovsky, 1846

Colored lithograph by Max Beeger and A Faure