Overseas affairs

Genovesi d' Oltremare first coloni modern dominant one small flat alluvial bordered from a golden sand beach, erge an impressive citadel, from is walled merlate that with white markings to the onslaught of the last ones contrafforti of the Aila mounts that fall back unexpected on the sea anch' they town-walls of wall that they are opened with a door fortified in powerful way, behind which they extend you vary spaces a time lives to you, than today they attend the work of the archeologi for citt?izantina, last under the power of the Mongoli nel. left for their far shipments towards China the father and got hold and of they made the center of the Gothia, one concurrent of their main colony, Caffa, situated little east on this same coast of Crimea. to pu?ssere that made an impression from the possanza of these “.altre”. Genoa founded on the rivers of the Black Mar, but also. In the heart of Istambul, on the other side of the Horn of Gold, svetta still today the Tower of Galata that was the hinge of the defense of the genovese Pear colony in the course of. Two Greek islands Chio and Mitilene, conserve their town-walls building, constructed from the Genovesi, the Giustiniani from one conserved in the local museums or still on the place, they remind the constructive work of the podest? of the consuls whom they made of ciascuna of these colonies overseas of other Genoa. of the Aegean, Genoa not?lle its first experiences of. From the beginnings of XII the century, on the wake of the crossed troops they had been formed of the small comunit?iguri in the main ports of Syria –. Palestine in which the Arrogant one avava obtained of the land, jurisdictional and customs concessions in ricompensa of the naval aid lend in the conquest of the made Terrasanta. exception for that one of Acres, than the Genovesi they had to abandon in 1258 to continuation of the violent crashs with the Pisani and Veneziani of the near quarters, was not never many popolati: some families of merchants, under autorit?i a consul, represent you the businessmen of the metropoli and organize the intense movement trade them legacy to the arrival, two times to the year, of the jails and of the ships genovesi. met?el XIII century, the genovese colonization takes tutt' around the Black Mar, citt?ome Caffa, Pera and Chio knows an exceptional development, is equipped of successive town-walls of walls and animates the regional economic life, resists to onslaught of the Greeks and the Mongoli, in order not to fall that two centuries pi?ardi in being able of the Ottomans, advanced in number. have one wide capacity: they constitute the antecedents that conquest or receives in concession, Genoa must make appeal the own inhabitants, sure, but also to all comunit?elle the Coasts on which its power extends. of emigration the Liguria interests all and it is diffused to the citt?he entertain relationships trades them with the sailors, adventurers, but also young who make their apprenticeship of transactions, members of the mercantile aristocracy leave for some month or some year, they are settled down in overseas, they take mogli or concubines, they call their family, always with nostalgia of their earth born them, of their parish of origin, than not scordano in their legacies. Minority in connection with the Greeks, or to the Armenians or the Mongoli who encircle them, this Genovesi overseas constitutes pi?ell' 80% of the western population of the marked colonization?olto: little Veneziani and Pisani in the genovesi colonies, practical no from Liguria one in the veneziane colonies, Clay, Corf? Negroponte. The attachment to the metropoli does not exclude from part of these leaves the country you of the humor jolts, allorch? they interests do not coincide with that she pursues the Common one: vedr?ad example, the Maona di Chio to take to a sure distance from the mother native land and its members, the Giustiniani, to come down to compromise with the Turks in order to maintain to their island the dominatrice societ?oloniale, where the only scope?uello to value, R-al.meglio, the resources of the territories overseas in order to satisfy the needs of the metropoli and still pi?el arrange handicraft of all medieval West borders of the world mongolo, sees to arrive in their ports the products of the Far East, silk and spezie, a lot searched in. They propose in exchange, until the heart of Asia, cloth and burlaps, wine and amuse slaves, useless mouths of the trib?aucasiche, that they go to serve in the wealthy families of citt?' the West or to upgrade feudi agricultural of the Sicily privileged between the world of the steppe and the forest and citt?le the genovesi colonies they are also centers that value the pi?mportanti local resources: wax, honey, pellicce and cereals for those of Crimea, alum destined to fix dyes of the stoffe of the West for Focea (Asia Minor), mastic, this “.chewing-gum”. of the Middle Ages for Chio, that contingenta of first “.cartelli commerciali”. it must to the spirit takeovers, not was at all need to submit. ?te aboriginal and to leave they a part of the profits, maintaining common people in the own ancestral condition genovesi is not interested very to the propagation of the Christian faith: the members of the new Franciscan and Dominican begging orders –. –. follow the merchants in their been left over one, fuse churches and a hierarchy missionary in the countries “.tartari”., but they disappear with to the domination acculturation remain very limit to you: the introduction of some word orients them in the running dictionary and the creation of a dictionary trilingue, Persian, cumano and Latin in the genovesi centers of Crimea, not to pu?ascondere the insignificant pochezza of the intellectual contacts between those two worlds flank to flank without to integrate itself, but to level of the?te or to some case of concubinage between the tiny people in the measure in which the genovese domination is developed, a process of guideline of the?te is operated, above all in Greek within: the Giustiniani soccombono to the dolcezza of the island of distaccano Omero and little little from their metropoli that d?oro little support heavy economic development, light cultural subjection: the genovesi takeovers overseas have been the “.laboratorio”. of Africa and Asia, rather than the Spanish in their colonies of beyond-Atlantic, have drawn profit from the experiences. University professor ordinary Medioevale History to the Universit?i Paris (Sorbona) and?ormato to the Archives of State of Genoa, where he has studied for years.