Trade between Kosovo and South Adriatic in the Ottoman period

Abstract

Interregional links in their complexity within the human activity have been historically conditioned by economic factors, either in the form of exploitation or the exchange of material goods. Kosovo is among the countries that have provided optimal conditions for the use of natural resources, while with the Adriatic area there has been a certain direction of economic relations since the most ancient periods. Links between Kosovo and the Adriatic have been of varying intensity through history, but particularly have been pronounced in periods of involvement in political and administrative units, such as the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. Since it was known as a name, in the Middle Ages, Kosovo has not encompassed the same territory that exists today. Kosovo's economic and trade relations with the Adriatic had a specific development during the Ottoman period, which lasted more than five centuries in Europe, from the 14 th to the beginning of the 20 th century. As a specific mode of commercial activity, the caravans and land routes they followed played an important role until the end of the 19 th century