Trade Interests of Genoa and Venice in the Georgian Black Sea Littoral in the 13th-15th Centuries
Journal: PRO GEORGIA JOURNAL OF KARTVELOLOGICAL STUDIES
Year: 2025

The southern Black Sea littoral had been a crossroads where Eastern and Western commercial interests intersected. Goods from India, Persia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus were actively traded. During the 13th-15th centuries, the Black Sea coast of Georgia was within the sphere of Genoese and Venetian commercial interests. The conquest of Constantinople and the establishment of the Latin Empire expanded Venetian privileges and access in the region, a fact well documented in historical records. Th