History & Culture

History has always been a main interest. In 1999, I became the first person to graduate with a Distinction (Honours) degree in Oxford University’s Byzantine Studies MPhil program.

Since then, I have published numerous historical articles, as well as the historical sections for many travel guides, and ind monographs with historical content and and cultural topics. For me, exploring the past and the living heritage of all periods of local history can help inform readers and travelers today to better enjoy and appreciate the places and civilizations they encounter.

 

Ebooks of Historic and Cultural Value

The Vatican’s Challenges in the Balkans: Bolstering the Catholic Church in 2015 and Beyond (Deliso and Albertini, 2015).

-A full-length ebook monograph with extensive back matter, analyzing the historic relationship of the Holy See with the Balkan region, and its modern diplomatic and charitable engagements with Balkan countries to 215, with some estimates for the future of an ‘Eastern Adriatic’ revived sphere of influence.

 

Some History & Culture Articles by Christopher Deliso, 2016

“Istanbul History and Houses: Discovering the Levantine Glavany Family,” The Traveller’s Literary Supplicant, October 30, 2024.

-An article recapping a presentation by two historians, organized by the Levantine History Foundation, on the Glavany family of the Ottoman Empire, its lineage and historic achievements, as well as lost and remaining architecture in Turkey.

“Is It Time To Remember Bandon Author Who Wrote 300 Books?” The Southern Star (Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland), 12 March 2023.

-A historical op-ed on the need to remember the West Cork author LT. Meade. who was among the most successful and prolific female authors in late 19th and early 20th-century London.

“Yugoslavia’s Very Secret Service, History Today, August 2017.

-In this magazine feature, I uncover the murky legacy of the former UDBA- one of the Cold War’s major security agencies, and the one responsible for carrying out numerous murders against enemies and perceived enemies of Tito’s communist regime in the Yugoslav diaspora, from America to Western Europe to Australia.

“Bulgaria’s City of the Tsars,” BBC History Magazine.

-A culturally rich city still brimming over with historic attractions, Veliko Tarnovo was a key center of medieval political and artistic life. In this article, Christopher Deliso explores some of the city’s most fascinating historical moments.

“Αποψη: «Επιστράτευση» του συνόλου του πολιτιστικού πλούτου” (“Opinion: The ‘Recruitment’ of Cultural Wealth,” Kathimerini, October 1, 2011.

-In this 2011 article published in Greek in the leading Athenian daily Kathimerini, I discusses some of the key challenges facing the Greek tourism and cultural offer, and some of the proactive steps being taken in different parts of the country to diversify and attract new market segments, for example, by renovating and promoting the Ottman heritage sites of Thessaloniki.