Note 29 — The Ottoman Turks and the Routes of Oriental Trade
Reading edition
Q. B. Depping. Histoire du Commerce entre l’Europe et le Levant depuis les Croisades, 1832, ii. 227, 228; P. H. Mischef, La Mer Noire, p. 17. Privileges to navigate in the Black Sea were regularly granted to Venice by the Porte in treaties before that of 1540.