NEW PUBLICATION!  Τhe Centre of Maritime History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH has the pleasure to announce the publication of the volume by Evrydiki Sifneos, Oksana Υurkova  and Valentina Shandra (eds), Port-Cities of the northern shore of the Black Sea:  Institutional, Economic and Social Development,  18^th – early 20^th Centuries, Black Sea History Working Papers, volume 2, Rethymnon, 2021 which forms the eighth book published from our ongoing project. This is a very special book for various reasons. It is the last book of Evrydiki Sifneos who passed away in 2015 and who had organized the conference in Odessa in 2013, on which this book is based. She is the one to have collected the papers and to comment on most of them The English translations of the chapters took a long time to be re-worked and completed. It has been due to our Ukrainian colleagues, Oksana Υurkova and Valentina Shandra, who worked diligently in the last years that the book was completed. The book was ready to be published when the War broke out. The book, a product of academic work, communication and collaboration talks about the formation and development of the port-cities of Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson and Crimea from the end of the 18^th century to the beginning of the 20^th century. It is painful for all of us now to watch those cities to be hurt and destroyed in the 21^st century. Τhe book examines and analyses the history οf the port cities of the northern coast using archives part of which have been today destroyed or displaced or are not accessible anymore.