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Bocharov S.G. The Venetian anchorage at the cape of St. John in Eastern Crimea (end of the 14th – first half of the 15th century)

Abstract: At the end of the 13th – 14th centuries the administration of the Republic of Venice thrice tried to establish trading posts on the Crimean peninsula. For this purpose they used at different stages both old Byzantine towns, such as, for example, Sudak, and unpopulated bays, such as Provato. All these attempts were not met with success. At the end of the 14th – 15th centuries the Venetian presence in Crimea was limited to brief (from one day to three) ship moorage on the line to Tana. The main aim of this study is to localise the navigational point known in Venetian documents as the anchorage at the cape of St. John. The author compares three principal source types: written evidence, cartographical data, as well as archaeological material concerning this anchorage. The modern-day cape of Kiyik Atlama was named during the Middle Ages as the cape of St. John. The location of this anchorage has been established through the systematic archaeological investigations on the coast of Eastern Crimea. The ruined remnants of this navigational point were located in the eastern part of the shore of Tikhaya Bay. In 2000 this was the location of extensive archaeological excavations which uncovered material evidence allowing to precisely identify this location with the Venetian anchorage at the cape of St. John.


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Venetsianskaya respublika, Genuya, Genuezskaya Gazariya, Vostochnyi Krym, mys sv. Ioanna, Provato, Zolotaya Orda, kartografiya, arkheologicheskie issledovaniya, mys Kiik-Atlama


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