Nave veneţiene şi genoveze în bazinul pontic (sec. XIII-XIV)
Types of Ships from Venice and Genoa in the Black Sea (Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: There were periods of times in the world’s history when the navigation had an important role in the development of the society. The ships and the navigation had been and it will be an indivisibile unit, an essential condition for the development of the state auttority of a state who has autgoing at the sea. The history at the Greeks and the Phoenicians, of the medieval hanseatic fortress and the Italian maritime republics – Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa, Venise – is more the history of its fleet. The most cheaper vehicle was the boat and the navigation became one of the most important barometers of the economic life in Italian maritime cities, especially Venice and Genoa. The coasts of Greece and Dalmatia were dominated by the Italian navy. During the 8-th and 14-th century, Mediteranean navy, and the Black Sea, being tied up through straits of the Mediteranean Sea and other Seas wich it was, consisted of, can’t be detatched of the board of the navigation spread in all the Italian maritime cities. The venician and genovian ships that had been sailling on the Black Sea, during the 8-th and 15-th centuries, were of two types: “long boats” wich oars and “pot-bellied ships” with sails. The selection of the boat was determined by the type of the transportation and by the navigation’s conditions.

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