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    Feodosia (redirect from Caffa (Crimea))
    of the regions into which Crimea is divided. During much of its history, the city was a significant settlement known as Caffa (Ligurian: Cafà) or Kaffa...
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  • was alleged to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of biological warfare during the siege. Caffa was established by Genoese traders in 1266...
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    Crimea (/kraɪˈmiːə/ kry-MEE-ə) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and...
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    ISBN 978-0-241-95305-1. "Another New England — in Crimea". Big Think. 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2024-01-20. Slater, Eric. "Caffa: Early Western Expansion in the Late Medieval...
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    Kefe Eyalet (redirect from Eyalet of Caffa)
    Crimea. The eyalet was under direct Ottoman rule, completely separate from the Khanate of Crimea. Its capital was at Kefe, the Turkish name for Caffa...
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    the Hodegetria type, which originally lay in a Dominican church in Caffa, Crimea. The current building is a nineteenth-century (1841 to 1843) reconstruction...
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    defeats Uzun Hasan of Akkoyunlu Turkmens. 1475 Gedik Ahmet Pasha captures Caffa. Crimea becomes vassal of the Ottoman Empire. 1478 Albania is conquered. 1480...
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  • up caffa or Caffa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caffa may refer to: Caffa, former name of Feodosiya, a town in Crimea Melchiorre Cafà or Caffa (1636-1667)...
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    18647/2730/JJS-2007. Historical survey > Slave societies Caffa Mikhail Kizilov (2007). "Slave Trade in the Early Modern Crimea From the Perspective of Christian, Muslim...
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    Mangup (redirect from Dorus (Crimea))
    conquered Caffa and at the end of the year, after five months of besieging Mangup, the city fell to the assault. While much of the rest of Crimea remained...
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    (Italian: italiani di Crimea; Ukrainian: Італійці Криму; Russian: Итальянцы в Крыму) are an ethnic minority residing in Crimea, whose ancestors were Italians...
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    Genoese Gazaria (category Medieval Crimea)
    the Ottoman Empire in 1474. Caffa Cembalo Soldaia Vosporo Sarsona Capitanatu Gotia (territory of Theodoro) Aside from Crimea, Genoa possessed several castles...
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    the slave market." The main slave market was Caffa which after 1475 was part of the coastal strip of Crimea that belonged to the Ottomans. In the 1570s...
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  • bishop and friar. He was consecrated as the Armenian Apostolic bishop of Caffa by the Caucasian Albanian catholicos Stepanos IV in or before 1321. The...
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    Black Sea slave trade (category History of Crimea)
    to slave ships and trafficked to Caffa in the Crimea. Polish was such a common ethnicity for a slave in the Crimea Khanate, that the Polish language...
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    Genoese commercial bases were Chios and Mytilene in the Aegean Sea, and Caffa, the major trading center between Mongol-ruled Eastern Europe and Central...
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    native to Crimea. The formation and ethnogenesis of Crimean Tatars occurred during the 13th–17th centuries, uniting Cumans, who appeared in Crimea in the...
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    the Genoese fearing a war with Caffa. On 6 June 1475, the Ottoman Albanian commander Gedik Ahmet Pasha conquered Caffa after five days of siege. The siege...
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    Crimean Campaign (1475) (category History of Crimea)
    capturing strategic strongholds such as Caffa, Sudak, Kerch, and Azov, effectively dismantling Genoese dominance in Crimea.: 266  The Crimean Expedition of 1475...
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  • Russian territory. Captives were subsequently sent to the Crimean city of Caffa to be sold into slavery. As a result, the Russian population in the border...
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    defeats Uzun Hasan of Akkoyunlu Turkmens. 1475 Gedik Ahmet Pasha captures Caffa. Crimea becomes vassal of the Ottoman Empire. 1478 Albania is conquered. 1480...
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  • located between Galata (the Genoese quarter of Constantinople) and Caffa in Crimea. The first Venetian colony on the Black Sea was granted in 1319 by...
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    Sudak (category Cities in Crimea)
    significance in Crimea, a territory recognized by most countries as part of Ukraine but annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Sudak serves as...
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    their way to the Crimea. Mistrusting the loyalty and ability of his governors there, Mamai decided to seek refuge in Genoese Caffa. However, fearing...
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    Republic of Venice establishing in Sudak in the Crimea in 1206 and later in Tana, and the Republic of Genoa in Caffa in 1266. The majority of the slaves in the...
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  • Luca Tarigo was a Genoese explorer and merchant based in Caffa in the Crimea during the 14th century. In 1347 he travelled up the rivers Don and Volga...
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  • Metropolitanate of Gothia (category Christianity in Crimea)
    establishment in Sweden. The Metropolitanate of Gothia (also of Gothia and Caffa), also known as the Eparchy of Gothia or Metropolitanate of Doros, was a...
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    Republic of Genoa (category Medieval Crimea)
    Genoa established the colony of Caffa in Crimea. In the following years the Genoese established further colonies in Crimea: Soldaia, Cherco and Cembalo....
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    the siege of Caffa, an attack that Mongols launched on the Italian merchants' last trading station in the region, Caffa, in the Crimea. In late 1346...
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  • Dondedeo de' Giusti (category Crimea stubs)
    de' Giusti was the Consul of Caffa, a colony of the Republic of Genoa in what is the current day city of Feodosia in Crimea, in 1343. Canale, Michele Giuseppe...
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