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the Mediterranean and continental Europe, the merchants from
Trieste traded wheat and flour to the Ocean and the Americas. Cereals
became an important element of the ties that united Trieste to the
Atlantic. The Proli group was protagonist of this trafficking and many
of those involved in trade in thalers were key players in the cereals
trade, too, such as count Cothek, Ricci and the Brentano, Cimaroli
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and Venino company .

4. Mediterranean segments and practices

It was around these elements that the trading network centring on
Trieste grew, assuming marketplace dimensions.
Merchants from Greek and Ottoman Levant, Malta, Dubrovnik,
Dalmatia, France, Portugal, England, Holland, Flanders, Switzerland,
Denmark, the Kingdom of Naples and the Papal States, the Veneto,
Chioggia and Pellestrina, Sicily and Livorno reached Trieste in the
1750s. The ports and areas with the densest trade were in the Levant,
in Italy, on the eastern Adriatic coast but there were also ports
situated along the European Atlantic coasts and along the North Sea:
Lisbon, Cadiz, London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Marseilles, Morea,
Missalonga, Izmir, Candia, Ulcinj, Shkodër, Durrës, Bar, Rijeka,
Bakar, Barletta, Trapani, Ancona, Goro (a natural port created from
by sea rip currents at the Po estuary, key to Italian and Swiss markets
access), Naples, Messina, Livorno, Genoa and Senigallia. And this
within a dense flow of intersecting trade made up of trade now evading
Venetian vetoes with terminals in the empire’s inner areas, in
continental Europe: Vienna, Hungary, Carinthia, Styria and Bohemia.
The goods traded were silk, wools, cottons, linens, hats, oil, wine,
citrus, rice, cereals, vegetables, garlic, legumes, cheese, German
barley, raisins, almonds, figs, drugs, sugar, cocoa, pepper, cinnamon,
vanilla, coffee from Alexandria, salt from Barletta and Trapani, salted
and dried fish (such as herrings, stockfish and salmon), liqueurs,
rosolio, soap, pasta, wax, colourful Brazilian woods, potash, sulphur,
tin, cream of tartar, rock alum, arsenic, mercury, Bohemian glass,
iron and copper (raw and worked such as Carinthian nails, scythes,
shovels, iron wire, pans, knives, brooches), arms, deer horn and
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tortoise shell .

22 Sav, Savi, 756, 25 April 1778, 757, 1 January and 22 September 1781 and 759,
20 October 1785 and 6 April 1786.
23 Sav, Inquisitori, 903; 1265, 10 November 1753; 618, 1 June 1754; Savi, s. I, 843,
s. I, 17 October and 16 December 1752.

n.44 Mediterranea - ricerche storiche - Anno XV - Dicembre 2018
ISSN 1824-3010 (stampa) ISSN 1828-230X (online)