The COST Action 'People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923)', or 'PIMo' for short, unites its researchers in the conception of the Mediterranean as a flexible locus for a multitude of cultural transactions. Their primary goal is to restate the region's significance as a historic site of engagement and exchange. In this volume twelve Mediterranean port cities are considered as places of distance and proximity, conflict and cooperation, autonomy and control.