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The Loss and Reacquisition of Caffa: The Status of the Geno­ese Entrepôt within the Borders of the Golden Horde

open access: yesZolotoordynskoe 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.
exaly   +3 more sources

Misunderstandings of the transmission of the Black Death to Western Europe : a critical review of De Mussis’s account [PDF]

open access: yesUisahak, 2021
This article aims to critically review de Mussis’s report of the events at Caffa. De Mussi says in his account that Tartars catapulted their dead compatriots infected by the plague into the besieged city of Caffa in order to contaminate the Genoese ...
Jongkuk NAM
doaj   +2 more sources

Binary-Phase vs. Frequency Modulated Radar Measured Performances for Automotive Applications [PDF]

open access: yesSensors, 2023
Radars have been widely deployed in cars in recent years, for advanced driving assistance systems. The most popular and studied modulated waveform for automotive radar is the frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW), due to FMCW radar technology’s ease
Mattia Caffa   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Enhancing endocrine therapy activity via fasting cycles: biological rationale and clinical feasibility [PDF]

open access: yesMolecular & Cellular Oncology, 2021
We found that periodic fasting increases the anti-cancer activity of endocrine agents used to treat hormone receptor-positive breast cancer and delays acquired resistance to them by reducing blood leptin, insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1 ...
Irene Caffa, Alessio Nencioni
doaj   +2 more sources

A Letter of the Tuscan Anonym on the Seizure of Caffa in 1475 from the Codex Q 116 sup of the Ambrosian Library

open access: yesZolotoordynskoe 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
exaly   +3 more sources

An Eastern European capital city of Caffa from Golden Horde period to Ottoman Empire [PDF]

open access: yesCrimean 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
exaly   +2 more sources

Caffa and Tana: confrontation and partnership of the Italian maritime republics in the Northern Black Sea region in the 13th–15th centuries

open access: yesZolotoordynskoe Obozrenie
The aim of the research is to study the evolving relations between the Italian maritime republics and their trading posts in the Black Sea region against the background of their relations with the Golden Horde.
Karpov S.P.
exaly   +3 more sources

The Ottoman Conquest of Caffa (1475), Kilia and Belgorod (1484) in the Chronicle of the Turks written by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, the Spanish Historian

open access: yesZolotoordynskoe 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.
exaly   +3 more sources

Biological warfare at the 1346 siege of Caffa.

open access: yesEmerging 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
exaly   +3 more sources

Caffa as Thalassopoliteia: The Genesis of the Civic “Maritime Identity” in a Late Medieval City

open access: yesИзвестия 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
doaj   +1 more source

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