The Early Khans of Crimea: the Chronology of the Turmoil in the Ac-counts of the Genoese Treasury of Caffa, 1420s
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2013

Four account books of the Genoese colony in Caffa kept in 1420–1426 by its treasurers (massarii) are still unpublished as a whole. Almost four hundreds records in these manuscripts deal with the Tartar-Genoese relations and the political situation in Crimea. Combined with the numismatic data and evidences from chronicles and state correspondence they let the author to ascertain up to weeks and days the chronology of khans’ reign. After the death of the first Crimean khan Bek Sufi in 1421 his bro