This book deals with the organization and nature of the trade of Smyrna with western Europe from 1700 to 1820. It examines the economic activities of the western European mercantile communities as well as the Muslim and non-Muslim merchants - Armenian, Greek and Jewish. This study sets out to examine the economy of a major Ottoman city-port in the nineteenth century: it continues into the early nineteenth, covering the Napoleonic period, for developments in that period both inaugurated a new era and were a legacy of the previous century. [. . .]
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