NEKOLIKO DOKUMENATA O TRGOVAČKIM I POMORSKIM VEZAMA SENJA I FANA
SEVERAL DOCUMENTS ON TRADING AND MARITIME LINKS OF SENJ AND FANO

Summary/Abstract: This work deals, analysis and elaborates several important mercantile documents on trading relations between Senj and Fano. The papers on trading between the inhabitants of Senj, the east Adriatic coast, and those of Fano, on the west Adriatic coast, are now preserved in the Archivio Stato di Pesaro", while several others were published in Mario Bartoletti's book "Una Adriatica fra medioevo e rinascimento" in the part entitled "Documenti della marineria di Fano nei secoli XIV-XV-XVI". The author of the above mentioned book explains various trading forms like contracts on sale, marriages, acknowledgements, rewards, punishments etc. Those were brisk commercial links, established on mutual interests and respective reliance on both sides. So, a great number of the citizens of Senj used to stay permanently or temporarily at Fano various jobs they were performing there. Likewise, a considerable number of the citizens of Fano used to have temporary or permanent residence at Senj and some of them even hold their shops in the city's main street, called Potok, where they were selling various goods, specially the wine, but many other supplies as well. The mercantile links helped the promotion of both cities which, in the course of the 14lh, 15th and 16th centuries experienced the economic prosperity from every point of view. The relations between them were the example of the successful trading of two cities on different shores of the Adriatic Sea. In the course of the 16th c, when the city of started to experience the unsafe times being endangered by the Ottomans, the trading and all other relations were almost completely suspended. When the conflicts on the sea started between Uscocs and Venetia, the century old links between the two cities were completely interrupted. The above mentioned documents with the respective comments are a great contribution for the comprehension of trading and maritime relations between Senj and Fano which have succeeded to find for three centuries or so mutual interests in trading and maritime links, although on different shores of the Adriatic Sea.

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