Historical Perspectives of Migration and Urbanization in Europe
Abstract
The above passage is part of a detailed description of the Black Sea port of Odessa written by the German travel writer Johann Georg Kohl. In 1838, the year of Kohl’s visit, Odessa had around 70,000 inhabitants. Street signs, Kohl tells us, were written in Russian, the national language, and Italian, the city’s commercial lingua franca.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Migration
Refugees
and Integration
Health
Geopolitics
Historical Geography
Historical Economic and Social Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- IMISCOE research series
- Pages
- 21–47
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter