Pages: 305-317

The article presents written accounts, cartographic information and archaeological materials referring to the Naval Anchorage Provato (Eastern Crimea, near Feodosia). In Provato Bay, the Republic of Venice attempted to start a commercial settlement, yet it only managed to found a temporary naval anchorage for the Venetian vessels, with a seasonal trade with caravans coming from the inlands of the Golden Horde on its territory.

Keywords: Provato, Eastern Crimea, the Genoese Gazaria, the Republic of Venice, historical geography, naval anchorage

Information about author:

Sergei Bocharov (Yalta, Crimea). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Public budgetary science institution of Crimea Republic “Institute of Archaeology of Crimea”¹; Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University².
¹Academician Vernadsky Ave., 2, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea; ²Butlerov St., 30, Kazan, 420012, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
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