Caffa as Thalassopoliteia: The Genesis of the Civic “Maritime Identity” in a Late Medieval City
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2023

In this article, the author deals with the formation of Caffa by the end of the fourteenth century as the leading thalassopoliteia in the Black Sea region, when the head of the city of Caffa became “the ruler of the whole Black Sea” at the same time. The author refers to Liber Gazariae (1341), Caffa’s Statuta (1316, 1449), Caffa’s notarial acts from the fourteenth–fifteenth centuries, Massaria Caffae 1381, 1424, Italian pilot charts, Byzantine periploi from the fourteenth–fifteenth centuries, It