2021, vol. 9, no. 1. Pubblici L.

2021, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 90-107

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2021-9-1.90-107

   WESTERN IMMIGRATION IN THE FOURTEENTH-CENTURY
GOLDEN HORDE: THE CASE OF VENETIAN TANA

Lorenzo Pubblici
Santa Reparata International School of Arts
Florence, Italy
lorenzo.pubblici@gmail.com

Abstract: Objective: This paper’s aim is to reconstruct the Western population of Venetian Tana in the fourteenth century, the residents’ perception of their condition as “mig­rants”, and finally this population’s interactions with the other communities who lived there.
Research materials: The sources used are primarily the notarial deeds of the Venice State Archive together with the vast and excellent scholarship produced in recent decades.
Research results and novelty: For over two centuries the settlement of Tana, situated in the territory of the Golden Horde, represented the easternmost outpost of the Latin emporia in the Levant. Here, the utilitarian concept of the Western urban mercantile class found itself confronted with a new experience. This group was a minority living in close contact with larger, cohesive communities whose cultural background was extremely diverse.
Those who emigrated east were mainly the emerging urban bourgeoisie, but also families of ancient noble origin who had nothing in common with the world of the Steppe and its traditional roots. These citizens came to the Levant, bringing with them the urban associative model. The life of the settlement at the mouth of the river Don is an ideal basis for observing the flow of people who left Venice and its surroundings on galleys and, after months of travel, arrived on the shores of the Sea of Azov.

Keywords: Venice, Tana, Mongols, History of Trade, Black Sea, Sea of Azov, Medieval History

For citation: Pubblici L. Western Immigration in the fourteenth-century Golden Horde: The Case of Venetian Tana. Zolotoordynskoe obozrenie=Golden Horde Review. 2021, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 90–107. DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2021-9-1.90-107

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About the author: Lorenzo Pubblici – Ph.D. (Medieval History), Full Professor of History and Anthropology, Head of the Department of Humanities and Liberal Arts, Santa Reparata International School of Art (4, Piazza dell’Indipendenza, Florence 50129, Italy). E-mail: lorenzo.pubblici@gmail.com

Received  November 12, 2020   Accepted for publication  March 4, 2021
Published  Online March 29, 2021