Some remarks on the untold maritime history of the albanians
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59164/univers.v20i20.2575Abstract
Although the Albanians are one of the peoples that have been living on the Mediterranean for thousands of years, we are probably the only Mediterraneans that have almost never given any importance to the developement of maritime history studies. It seems in fact unbelievable how few studies about the sea are undertaken by Albanian scientis in general and from historians in the particular. The Albanians are a Mediterranean people that enjoy a key strategic position in the Central Mediterranean, bordering two of the most important maritime spaces of this great sea, i.e. the Adriatic and the Ionian sea, they have had a limited role in the naval history of the Middle Ages. Until the 15th century, the Adriatic Sea was a maritime space dominated exclusively by the Venetians. The Hungarian influence in Dalmatia and the Ottoman presence in Albania eventually ended the Venetian monopoly on the Adriatic Sea. The new situation that would last for four centuries gave new opportunities to the Croats and the Albanians, but also to the Anconitans on the Italian coast. The growth of maritime trade in the Adriatic sparked the developement of the economy of the eastern Adriatic coast and the interaction of Albanians with the sea and the Mediterranean world reached the highest levels in our entire history during this period, namely the central centuries of Ottoman rule (16th - 18th centuries) when the Adriatic was transformed from a Venetian “lake” into a sea exploited by various actors also, such as Croats, Albanians, and Spaniards. In the comparative aspect, the sixteenth century is not only the golden age of the Ottomans, but also of the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the Algerians, the Venetians, the Ragusans, and the French. In general, it is the golden age of the Mediterranean. Thus, the participation and involvement of the Albanians in this Mediterranean civilization awakening, in this revival of the Mediterranean, is neither shameful nor unnatural. It is the expected and inherent consequence of a comprehensive, pan- Mediterranean trend.
Keywords:
historia detare, brigjet e Mesdheut, Deti Adriatik, histori, autoktoniDownloads
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