Abstract
Whether the navigation and, therefore, the foreigners’ commercial activity in the Black Sea continued after the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 – and above all after the final conquest of the last important Italian Black Sea colonies in 1475 (Caffa/Fedosia and Tana/Tanais) – is a matter of dispute. The new archival discoveries focusing on the Venetian commercial activity in the Black Sea in the period 1479–1499, delimited by the end of the First and the Second Ottoman–Venetian War, allow us to take the side of those who believe that the fall of Constantinople represented a certain continuation with the realities that preceded it, rather than a clear disruption of the Black Sea’s economy. On the other hand, the fact that the Venetians continued to trade in an area that was theoretically monopolized by Ottoman merchants indicates a lack of Ottoman commercial capacities, and a certain need of the Ottomans in reference to the Italian cities.
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