The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the 13th and 14th Centuries

110 chapter three shadows,” source of all the best-quality furs and pelts217 and then rejoined the khan’s retinue, with whom he ...

the disintegration of the empire 111 the great traveller was treated as an unusually esteemed guest by the authorities wherever ...

112 chapter three father’s achievements at a stroke. foreigners no longer circulated on the highways of the Jochid ulus, causing ...

the disintegration of the empire 113 the destruction of this great trade artery, which brought part of the silk road commerce to ...

114 chapter three that the east-West route was literally vitally important for the exchequer at sarai, regardless of what its ab ...

the disintegration of the empire 115 subject to egypt.234 the genoese tried to shatter the mamluks at the end of that decade, wi ...

116 chapter three brought out. it is a unique case in Black sea political history, for either the persian or the cuman mongol st ...

the disintegration of the empire 117 such vexations no longer concerned the genoese. having shown them- selves to be the only We ...

118 chapter three the list of purchases made at trebizond includes a horse bought from the genoese Benedetto, while baggage was ...

the disintegration of the empire 119 the same tenacious will that led the genoese from the northern shores of the Black sea to t ...

120 chapter three onwards,264 and indeed the many shipwrights who worked in Baghdad in the winter of 1289/90. more detail comes ...

the disintegration of the empire 121 from china by sea, and together with his father and uncle crossed the ilkhanate from south ...

122 chapter three brought across mesopotamia. it is no accident that in the oriental sources of the age, aleppo is known as “lit ...

the disintegration of the empire 123 We might suspect from the start that the same motive that led the ilkhan’s genoese allies t ...

124 chapter three the main agents in this new development in persian trade were again the genoese, who until the collapse of the ...

the disintegration of the empire 125 in the absence of any more direct information, we might suppose that they paid the usual ta ...

126 chapter three this commerce is rather indirect, mostly provided by men who themselves had nothing to do with the world of tr ...

the disintegration of the empire 127 stake of 4,313 genoese lira—the largest known Western capital invest- ment on the far easte ...

128 chapter three in summing the data on italian merchants on the south asian sea route, we reach an apparently paradoxical conc ...

the disintegration of the empire 129 once enthroned, ghazan’s brother Öljeitü behaved typically as a new ruler, full of confiden ...