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The Sicilian sugar trade in the Western Mediterranean in the later Middle Ages

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At the beginning of the 15th Century, Sicily had become one of the most important centers of sugar production and exportation in the Western Mediterranean. Many Pisan businessmen aided the development of this activity by bringing capital into the production structures and by organising the transport and trade of sugar to distant markets. This ensured that Palermo became a center of intense commercial activity : this is in relation to its hinterland, which had been transformed in to a well-equipped industrial territory that was linked to the capital city by a communication network. Cargoes of sugar loaded at Palermo and other sicilian ports increased and great number of businessmen attempted to establish regular links not only with the Maghrebian and Egyptian ports, but also with Flanders and England via Venice, Aigues-Mortes and Barcelona. The great commercial cities are the first to exploit this lucrative trade before minor businessmen sporadically appeared and engaged in exporting the sicilian sugar.
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halshs-01698092, version 1 (31-01-2018)

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Mohamed Ouerfelli. The Sicilian sugar trade in the Western Mediterranean in the later Middle Ages. Urban Dynamics and Trancultural Societies : [International Conference, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, November 26–27, 2015], Nov 2015, Heidelberg, Germany. pp.291-304. ⟨halshs-01698092⟩
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