A remarkable space was devoted to the developments about the Russo-Turkish War that started in 1806 as represented in the correspondences of Dupré, the first French consul in Trabzon. Dupré reported the Russian raids targeting Trabzon, apart from the…
Xavier de Planhol Çeviren: Özgür YILMAZ
Pierre Jarôme Dupré who came to Trabzon in 1803 as a trade commissioner resided in the city until his death in 1820. The most important duty of Dupré was to develop and protect the French trade in the consular region and also he would observe the local trade…
Growing commercial activity in the second half of the 19th century revealed inadequate conditions of the Çömlekçi Port by which a great part of the Trabzon’s trade realized in this period. The first infrastructure works was carried at the port during and…
Just like Trabzon, Samsun, one of the most important ports of the Southern Black Sea, entered into a rapid development process in the 1830s owing to the high potential of agricultural production and its geographical location. As a sign of this developmental…
Based on the Treaty of Paris in 1802, France established a consulate in Trabzon in 180, which gave France the privilege to trade in the Black Sea. However, the French commercial concern about Trabzon was reawakened in the 1830s when Persian transit trade was…