World image on ancient portolans. The Black Sea region. The end of the XIIIth – the XVIIth centuries
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The book represents the first comprehensive research on the Black Sea region based on sea charts, travel notes, notary documents, chronicles, numismatic and archaeological evidences of the end of the XIIIth -XVIIth centuries. Medieval portolan is a document containing a vast amount of information on a variety of phenomena of reality and spatial conceptions of the age. The author seeks to reconstruct political, economic, religious and ethno-linguistic situation in the Black Sea area of that time.
