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The spatial network of slave trade in Famagusta, 1300/1301 Connections to sites of origin of slaves Connections to sites of origin of traders 0 500 1000 km
NETWORKS OF SLAVERY Colour figures for the article: J. PREISER-KAPELLER, Liquid Frontiers. A Relational Analysis of Maritime Asia Minor as religious Contact Zone in the 13th-15th Century, in: A. PEACOCK et. al. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop The Reception of Islam in Anatolia and its Neighbours , Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilisations, Istanbul, 6-7 September 2013 (forthcoming, under review) (cf. also https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/?page_id=19) All graphs created by J. Preiser-Kapeller; for a pre-print of the paper and full references, see: http://www.academia.edu/4197258/Liquid_Frontiers._A_relational_an alysis_of_maritime_Asia_Minor_as_religious_contact_zone_in_the_13t h-15th_century Colour-fig. 1: Ethnic/religious attribution of 37 slaves traded in Famagusta, 1300/1301 Colour-fig. 2: Ethnic/religious background of 50 sellers and buyers of slaves in Famagusta, 1300/1301 Colour-fig. 3: Gender of 37 slaves traded in Famagusta, 1300/1301 Colour-fig. 4: The network of slaves from localities in Asia Minor traded in Famagusta on Cyprus in 1300/1301 Colour-fig. 5: Visualisation of the spatial structure of the data on slaves from localities in Asia Minor traded in Famagusta on Cyprus in 1300/1301 Colour-fig. 6: The ego- et ork of the Turkish sla e Ali fro Kayseri, sold by Gandulfus de Staeria (from Genoa) to Palmerio de Florenzola (from Florence) in Famagusta on Cyprus, 27th of July 1301 Colour-fig. 7: The geographical range of the mobility of trader and slave involved in the sale of Ali from Kayseri in 1301 Colour-fig. 8: Visualisation of the network of traders (circles) and slaves (triangles) on the basis of the data from Famagusta for 1300/1301; nodes are coloured according to their attributed ethnic/religious background (red – European/Western Christian; yellow – Greek/Slavic/Armenian/Eastern Christian; blue – Jewish; green – Saracen/Turk/Muslim; purple – Tatar/Cuman/Muslim [?]) Colour-fig. 9: Ethnic/religious attribution of 81 slaves traded in Candia (Crete), 1305/1306 Colour-fig. 10: Gender of 81 slaves traded in Candia (Crete), 1305/1306 Colour-fig. 11: Ethnic background of 42 enslavers of slaves traded in Candia (Crete), 1305/1306 Colour-fig. 12: Ethnic/religious background of 125 sellers and buyers of slaves traded in Candia (Crete), 1305/1306 Colour-fig. 13: The “ego network” of the slave Iohannes de Castamoni (Kastamonu) trade via Constantinople to Candia by Marcus Sclavo and other slaves of various origin traded by Sclavo in Candia at the same time; triangles: Slaves (green “Turk”, yellow “Greek”); circles: traders (red “Italian”, yellow “Greek); hexagons: localities Colour-fig. 14: The spatial structure of the ego et ork of the sla e Iohannes de Castamoni and the other slaves traded by Marcus Sclavo at the same time in Candia on Crete Colour-fig. 15: The connections between merchants established on the basis of the trade of slaves between them in Candia on Crete in 1305/1306; nodes coloured according to their ethnic/religious background: red “Western European/Western Christian”; yellow: “Greek/Eastern Christian”; green: “Jewish”; blue: “Saracen/Muslim” Colour-fig. 16: The connections between slaves on the basis of them being owned by the same person on the basis of the data from Candia on Crete for 1305/1306; nodes coloured according to their attributed ethnic/religious background: yellow “Greek/Eastern Christian”, red “Bulgarian/Eastern Christian”, blue “Turk/(originally) Muslim”, green “Saracen/(originally) Muslim”, purple “Tatar/(originally) Muslim (?)” Colour-fig. 17: The largest component within the network of slaves and traders on the basis of the data from Candia on Crete for 1305/1306; slaves are green, traders are red; nodes scaled according to their “betweenness” centrality within the network Connections between Famagusta and the Mediterranean world on the basis of links to the places or origin of merchants who came there to trade with slaves in 1300/1301 (links weighted according to the number of merchants active in Famagusta from that city) (graph: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013). Connections between Famagusta and the Mediterranean world on the basis of links to the places from or via which slaves came who were traded in Famagusta in 1300/1301 (links weighted according to the number of slaves traded in Famagusta from that area) (graph: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013). Connections between Candia and the Mediterranean world on the basis of links to the places of origin of merchants who came there to trade with slaves in 1305/1306 (links weighted according to the number of merchants active in Candia from that city) (graph: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013). Connections between Candia and Anatolia, the Aegean and the Black Sea on the basis of links to the places or origin of slaves who were traded there in 1305/1306 (nodes scaled according to the number of slaves coming from or via that locality to Candia) (graph: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013). Data sources: • Usta, Ahmet (2011), Evidence of the Nature, Impact and Diversity of Slavery in 14th Century Famagusta as Seen through the Genoese Notarial Acts of Lamberto di Sambuceto and Giovanni da Rocha and the Venetian Notarial Acts of Nicola de Boateriis. MA-Thesis, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimağusa, North Cyprus. • Wright, Diana Gilliland (2001), Vade, sta, ambula. Freeing slaves in Fourteenth Century Crete. Medieval Encounters 7/2, p. 197–237.