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Foreigners, the city and quarantine in the Adriatic

The border between the Venetian possessions and the Ottoman territory in the Balkans, the so-called East and West, ran in the 16th century along the peaks of the mountains that tower over the coast of the eastern Adriatic. However, for many travelers and traders arriving from the East, the first and sometimes dramatic encounter with the culture of the Western Mediterranean was the experience of quarantine practiced in lazarettos. These complexes for sanitation were located in the city port, often right next to the city gates. Unlike Jewish merchants who lived within the city walls, Ottoman travelers and merchants were compelled in the 16th and 17th century, after exiting the quarantine, to live outside the city walls, in state-provided accommodation which provided to the state possibility to better control and supervise movement of foreigners and to merchants’ safety and comfort.

Encounter, diversity, Dalmatia, fondaco, city space

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