The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

ISBN: 9789004226661 出版年：2012 页码：339 Virgil Ciociltan Brill

The inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network – with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde (Urgench-Sarai-Tana/Caffa) and the Spice Road through the Ilkhanate (Ormuz-Tabriz-Trebizond) – was the two Mongol states’ most important contribution to making the sea a “crossroads of international commerce”.