| Titre | Règlements de Süleymân Ier concernant le livâ' de Kefe | |
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| Auteur | Mihnea Berindei, Gilles Veinstein | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 16, no 1, janvier-mars 1975 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier. Villes ottomanes de Crimée |
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| Page | 57-104 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Mihnea Berindei and Gilles Veinstein, Regulations of Süleyman the First concerning the livâ' of Kefe.
The present article deals with unpublished regulations contained in the Istanbul Archives pertaining to certain towns of the Ottoman province of Kefe: Kefe (Caffa), Kerš (Vosporo), Qopa (Сора), Taman (Matriga), Azaq (Tana). These documents given here in facsimile, with their French translation and accompanied by a glossary of technical terms and an index, serve to determine the Ottoman fiscal system in this region.
They contain extensive information on taxes, their nature, their amounts, units of measure and means of transport on which such taxes are based as well as information on economic activities on which they bear. This information enabled us to draw up in the introduction a table of commercial currents and of production in this region. This table leads to the conclusion that though under Süleyman the First the Northern region of the Black Sea was no longer the turn-table of international trade as in the times of the Genovese colonies and of Pax Mongolica — a position it had moreover lost in the second half of the XIVth century — it still remained a scene of active trade, noted already at former periods, for numerous local products (cereals, slaves, hides and skins, salt, fish, caviar, etc.) plied between Istanbul, Anatolia, Tatar and Cherkess countries and the Abkhaz coast, in which merchants of Western Europe continued to play a certain part. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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