Recent scholarship has convincingly challenged the long-standing image of the Balkans as an inaccessible and fragmented region. Historical evidence instead reveals a landscape characterized by extensive mobility and dense networks of travel, trade, and communication. Yet our understanding of these networks remains uneven. Fundamental questions persist: Where did major and minor routes run? Who built and maintained them? Who used them, for what purposes, and over what distances? How were journeys organized, and what infrastructures and logistical arrangements made movement possible?

The workshop addresses these questions through an actor-centered approach to the historical geography of the Balkans. Moving beyond infrastructural determinism, it examines connectivity as a social and political phenomenon shaped by the interaction of people, animals, institutions, technologies, and landscapes. Bringing together archaeological, cartographic, textual, and digital spatial evidence, the workshop seeks to reconsider the historical geographies of movement, communication, and exchange across Southeast Europe.