The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

The inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network - with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde (Urgench-Sarai-Tana/Caffa) and the Spice Road through the Ilkhanate (Ormuz-Tabriz-Trebizond) - was the two Mongol states' most important contribution to making the sea a "crossroads of international commerce".

About the author

Virgil Ciocîltan, Ph.D. (1998), is researcher at the Nicolae Iorga History Institute of the Romanian Academy (Institutul de Istorie 'N. Iorga' al Academiei Române) in Bucharest. He has published monographs and many articles on the history of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea in the Middle Ages.

Product details

• Authors: Virgil Ciocîltan
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2012
• EAN: 9789004226661
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22666-1
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 241 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: East Central and Eastern Europ
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management