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Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie, 2021 Research objectives: To analyze both the circumstances of the armed conflict of Genoese Caffa with the troops of the Golden Horde ruler, Toqta Khan, in 1307–1308, which ended with the temporary expulsion of Italian merchants from the Jöchid territory ...
Hautala R.
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Caffa as Thalassopoliteia: The Genesis of the Civic “Maritime Identity” in a Late Medieval City
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2023 In this article, the author deals with the formation of Caffa by the end of the fourteenth century as the leading thalassopoliteia in the Black Sea region, when the head of the city of Caffa became “the ruler of the whole Black Sea” at the same time. The
Alexander Georgievich Emanov
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An Eastern European capital city of Caffa from Golden Horde period to Ottoman Empire [PDF]
Crimean Historical Review, 2019 The present article was initially based on the thought of evaluating Kefe’s pre-Ottoman period. The title shaped itself during the writing process. Kefe was not indeed an ordinary city, but a continental capital city.
Yudzhel’ Oz’tyurk
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Shipping Communities in a Mediaeval Thalassopolis (Caffa from the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century)
Античная древность и средние века, 2023 This article explores the phenomenon of shipping communities and the development of various forms of micro-spatial group identification among the sailors in the Pre-Modern world. The key research method is the heterotopia.
Aleksandr Georgievich Emanov
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Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie, 2018 This article contains the original Italian text and a Russian translation of a letter describing the Ottoman conquest of Caffa in June 1475 in a copy from a sixteenth-century codex of the Ambrosian Library in Milan (Q 116 sup., fol. 105r–106r).
R. Hautala, V.P. Gulevich
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Travelers’ notes (14th–15th centures) about the town of Caffa [PDF]
Поволжская археология, 2015 The author offers accounts of 14th – 15th century travelers about the medieval city of Caffa on the Crimean Peninsula, such as by Ibn Batuta, an anonymous Venetian traveler, Johannes Schiltberger, Gilbert de Lannnoy, Pero Tafur, Gilles le Bouvier ...
Sergei G. Bocharov
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Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie, 2019 Research objectives: To introduce the Russian translation of a little-known Spanish source about the Ottoman conquests of Caffa (1475), and Kilia and Belgorod (1484), into scholarly circulation.
Gulevich V.P.
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Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 On the basis of a 14th-century account by the Genoese Gabriele de’ Mussi, the Black Death is widely believed to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of a biological warfare attack.
Mark Wheelis
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A Letter of Ladizlaus, the Franciscan Custodian of Gazaria (Caffa, April 10, 1287). [PDF]
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2017 The following letter of Friar Ladizlaus, Franciscan Custodian of Gazaria (that is, of the Northern Black Sea region), contains an interesting description of the collision between Catholic missionaries and Muslim residents of Solkhat. In his letter, Friar
Roman Hautala
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In Magna Armenia: appunti sugli Armeni nella Caffa del XIV secolo
Melanges De L'Ecole Francaise De Rome Moyen Age, 2018 La popolazione armena ebbe una rilevanza qualitativa e quantitativa notevole nella vita di Caffa, colonia genovese sul Mar Nero, fra Trecento e Quattrocento. Cercando di porre proprio gli Armeni al centro dell’attenzione, si analizza brevemente la loro posizione all’interno della colonia, per poi passare all’analisi di alcuni dati lasciati dagli Armeni
F. Alpi
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