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The navigation on the east Adriatic: trade traffic and maritime dangers at the end of the Middle Ages

The purpose of this paper is to summarise the maritime trade traffic of the harbour cities of the east Adriatic coast during the Middle Ages until the early modern periods. For that purpose records from three types of sources are being used. First, the published editions of the Croatian diplomatic charters (in the Codex Diplomaticus) are useful to pick up the trade agreements between the cities of both coasts of the Adriatic, contracts that initiated the later trade routes. Second, the published Statute laws of the cities help to know the main communal laws and regulations concerning the economic issues in the 14th century. Finally, among the local records there are so-called contraliterrae (authorisations of the custom’ s service for the import and export in the port) of Šibenik (published) and Split (unpublished) which offer a possibility of statistic research of Dalmatian trade, but only for the period of the 15th and the 16th century. The other records from the State Archive in Zadar (hence after DAZd) contain some official reports of the local Venetian governors in the cities (comites), as well as notarial acts, which contain information on the city rules, descriptions of shipwrecks, judgements of the criminals like corsairs, and so on.

navigation; traffic; Adriatic; Modern age

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