Constantinople's Urban and Commercial Development (9th–13th centuries)

1. Commercial revival in the middle Byzantine capital

   Jan 1, 800Labels: Constantinople, Byzantium

   • Byzantium econ

2. Book of the Eparch codifies Constantinople’s guild economy

   Jan 1, 911Labels: Book of, Eparch

   • Book Prefect
   • APAN Archive

3. Venetian privileges confirmed in a 992 chrysobull

   Jan 1, 992Labels: Venice, Chrysobull

   • Cambridge Core

4. Harbour of Theodosius declines as siltation intensifies

   Jan 1, 1050Labels: Port of, Yenikap

   • UNESCO
   • Eleutherios

5. Alexios I grants major Venetian trade concessions

   Jan 1, 1082Labels: Alexios I, Venice

   • WHE Alexios
   • IME Chronos

6. Alexios I reforms coinage with the hyperpyron

   Jan 1, 1092Labels: Alexios I, Hyperpyron

   • Hyperpyron
   • Coinage

7. Pisan merchants receive imperial trading privileges

   Jan 1, 1111Labels: Pisa, Imperial privileges

   • IME Chronos

8. John II restores Venetian privileges after renewed conflict

   Jan 1, 1126Labels: John II, Venice

   • WHE John II
   • Oxford Academic

9. Treaty grants Genoa privileges, expanding Italian quarters

   Jan 1, 1155Labels: Genoa, Trade treaty

   • IME Chronos

10. Manuel I arrests Venetians and seizes their property

    Mar 1, 1171Labels: Manuel I, Venice

    • Manuel I
    • Cambridge Core

11. Massacre of the Latins in Constantinople

    Apr 1, 1182Labels: Massacre of, Italian merchants

    • Latins 1182
    • IME Chronos

12. Fires of 1203 devastate central commercial districts

    Jul 1, 1203Labels: Fires of, Fourth Crusade

    • 1203 Siege
    • City History

13. Sack of Constantinople fractures the city’s economy

    Apr 12, 1204Labels: Sack of, Fourth Crusade

    • City History
    • Byzantium 1204

14. Nicaea signs 1219 treaty sustaining Venetian trade access

    Jan 1, 1219Labels: Nicaea, Venice

    • Nicaea Venice

15. Treaty of Nymphaeum grants Genoa a Pera quarter

    Mar 13, 1261Labels: Treaty of, Genoa

    • Nymphaeum 1261
    • IME Chronos

16. Nicaean forces recapture Constantinople

    Jul 25, 1261Labels: Michael VIII, Recapture 1261

    • Reconquest 1261
    • IME Chronos