The city of Trebizond (the modern city of Trabzon in Turkey) was a medieval commercial center on the south coast of the Black Sea. It was the capital of the Empire of Trebizond until the collapse of the empire in 1461, after which it was under Ottoman administration.
The Empire of Trebizond was a monarchy and one of three successor rump states of the Byzantine Empire that governed parts of the north and south coasts of the Black Sea from the thirteenth through to the fifteenth century. The Empire of Trebizond fell to the Ottomans in 1461.
Koroni or Corone is a town in Messenia, Peloponnese. It was under Venetian administration during the late medieval and early modern period until 1501, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
The city of Lajazzo (modern-day Yumurtalık in Turkey) was a Genoese commercial colony in the late medieval period until it was conquered by the Mamluk Sultanate in 1347.
This is the first workplace of the notary Branca Bagnara, which was located under the portico of a palazzo of the Lomellini family. The palazzo was owned by Carlo Lomellini during the time Bagnara worked there.
Pietro de Columnis was a Genoese merchant active in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century. He was born as Pietro Scotto and assumed the de Columnis surname after entering into their albergo.
Objects that serve as media of exchange and are in general circulation, and by common agreement used as payment for goods and services and for the settlement of debts.
