ENTRY TYPE
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SUMMARY
This region includes the Black Sea coasts of Novorossiya (New Russia), which during the 19th century became the granary of Europe. The Greek merchants of the diaspora who had settled in the merchant colonies of the main harbours of the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe, in collaboration with the Greek nautical enterprises of the Ionian and the Aegean islands, developed enterprising networks which transported huge amounts of grain to the industrializing Europe. |
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