Acknowledgements List of maps, tables and illustrations Introduction Eleonora Naxidou, Yura Konstantinova Part I: Internal networks and their trans-Balkan expansion Commercial Networks in the Balkans (Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries) Evguenia Davidova Local Elites and Provincial Administration: Social Networks in the Province of Nish in the Early Tanzimat Era Yonca Köksal Trade Networks in the Danube Region in the 1840s: The Case of Apostolos Arsakis tefan Petrescu Tracing Ideological Networks in Newspapers: Alexander Battenberg's Trip to Greece and the Balkan Federation (1883) Stamatia Fotiadou Albanian Orthodox Intellectuals and Dilemmas of Discourses: Networks, Mentalities and National Narratives (late 19th-early 20th centuries) Elias G. Skoulidas Revolutionary and Paramilitary Networks in European Turkey: Ideological and Political Counteractions and Interactions (1878-1908) Zorka Parvanova Part II: External networks and their intra-Balkan connections Establishing Consular Networks in the Balkans: An Overview George Koutzakiotis Consular Jurisdiction and the Rise of Nation-States in the "Long" Nineteenth Century Simeon A. Simeonov A Balkan Network of Liberal Thinkers and their Federal Ideas (1860-1870) Eleonora Naxidou Propagating the Gospel among "Nominal Christians": American Protestant Missionaries in the 19th-century Ottoman Balkans Elmira Vassileva Between Politics and Charity: Russian Material Aid to the Balkan Orthodox Churches (1830-1877) Lora Gerd Trade Networks and Political Influence: Russia and the Bulgarian Merchants Yura Konstantinova Conclusion Eleonora Naxidou, Yura Konstantinova List of Contributors Index.