Confiseries et diplomatie dans les colonies de la République de Gênes sur la mer Noire à la fin du Moyen Âge
Journal: Prace Historyczne
Year: 2018

The article consists of two basic parts. The first part presents a characteristics of the diplomatic activities of Caffa, the main colony of the Republic of Genoa on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula in the 1380s. Of special significance in that domain were contacts with the Tatar emirs of Crimea who represented the Khan of the White Horde-Tokhtamysh. Those contacts led to a series of treaties (in 1381, 1382 and 1387), which resulted in the Genoese strengthening their position on the s