Paradeisopoulos (Paradisopoulos), SofroniosПарадісопулос, Софроніос2023-02-142023-02-142021Port-Cities of the Northern Shore of the Black Sea : Institutional, Economic and Social Development, 18th – early 20th Centuries. Black Sea History Working Papers, vol. 2. / Evrydiki Sifneos, Oksana Υurkova and Valentina Shandra (eds). – Rethymnon: the Centre of Maritime History 2021.https://dspace.onu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/34490Mortality is the second important demographic process after fertility. Studies in mortality as a constituent part of biometry focus on how deaths influence a population, its size and structure. Mortality is generally referred to as a process of extinction of a generation and perceived as a mass statistical process composed of a number of individual deaths coming at different ages and defining in their totality a sequence of extinction of a real or a conditional generation. As a category of historic demographic process it implies examination of “a mass process composed of a number of individual deaths coming at different ages and defining in their totality a sequence of extinction of a real or a conditional generation”1 or is referred to as “frequency of incidents of death in a social environment”.2 Together with fertility, mortality shapes natural movement (reproduction) of a population.enMortalityGreek CommunityOdessaBook chapter