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Christian Mediterranean ports were open to Muslim traders in the Middle Ages
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Is it true that Christian Mediterranean ports were open to Muslim traders in the Middle Ages?
Yes. Multiple historical sources confirm that Christian Mediterranean ports and commercial centers engaged in active trade and maintained commercial treaties with Muslim merchants and ports during the Middle Ages.
Verdict: SUPPORTED · 5 sources for, 0 against · Last checked
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Shows Muslim Spanish ports in contact with Christian commercial centers like Genoa, Pisa, and Catalonia.
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Gerli, E. M. (2017). Book: Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003). Routledge. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=0XOtEQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_api
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Notes trading relationships between Muslims and Christians in Mediterranean ports like Venice and Genoa.
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Forster, M. R. & Kaplan, B. J. (2005). Book: Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe. Routledge. http://books.google.com/books?id=0YzYAAAAMAAJ&dq=Christian+Mediterranean+ports+were+open+to+Muslim+traders+in+the+Middle+Ages&hl=&as_pt=BOOKS&source=gbs_api
Indicates early medieval commercial relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Umayyad Caliphate.
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Zavagno, L. (2013). Reti Medievali Rivista: Two hegemonies, one island: Cyprus as a “Middle Ground” between the Byzantines and the Arabs (650-850 A.D.). Reti Medievali Rivista. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/401
Notes that Ifrîqiyan Muslim merchants traded with Christian cities like Majorca and Valencia.
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OpenAIRE: Ifrîqiyan muslim merchants in the Mediterranean at the end of the middle ages. (1999). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518969908569758
Discusses commercial treaties between Muslim rulers and Christian states of southern Europe.
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OpenAIRE: Venice and Florence in the Mamluk commercial privileges. (1965). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00071421
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