Phocée byzantine et génoise : une croissance urbaine

• Main Author: Stephanos Efthymiadis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre d'Études Balkaniques 2012-01-01
• Series: Cahiers Balkaniques
• Subjects: Phocaea; thirteenth century; Asia Minor; Sartiaux Felix; Byzantine empire; Edremit
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ceb/968

The discovery of the Sartiaux record at the French School of Athens, added to our knowledge of Byzantine and Genovese Phocaea. In the 13th century, the exploitation of alun, as well as its sale throughout the Western Mediterranean by the Genoese led to strong growth and the foundation of the New Phocaea, in the 1290s, which was a new « industrial » port. Prosperity increased by the next century and in the early 15th century, the city is found at the confluence of three distinct powers, the dying Eastern Roma Empire, the Genoese lords, completely integrated into their society and the Ottomans, with whom the city maintained commercial relations, at least shortly before the fall of Constantinople.