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Fil per a mapes diversos sobre Catalunya i terres relacionades.
Thread aimed at maps about Catalonia and related lands.
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Sea trade routes
As a major Mediterranean power, the Aragon-Catalonia commercial routes were important for the whole of Europe. The long sea trade traditions among Catalans pushed into an expansion into all corners of the Mediterranean and even into the Atlantic from the 10th century onwards. This led to a series of routes parting from Barcelona to all known ports (13th century), but five were the main ones:
1. The North-African Route (Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli...) = gold and slaves
2. The Island Route (Majorca, Sardinia, Sicily...) = salt and wheat
3. The Byzantine Route (east to Constantinople) = cotton, spices and slaves
4. The Overseas Route (Cyprus, Syria, Alexandria...) = spices
5. The Western/Atlantic Route (up to Bruges) = distribution of eastern products all over Europe
Here the Catalan commercial areas among others in Europe such as the Hanseatic, the Genoese or the Venetian.
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