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chained_bear commented on the word fonduq
"The great European commercial centers were able to negotiate treaties with Muslim ports that governed crucial issues of customs payments, safety, self-regulation, and resolution of disputes. Merchants from Mediterranean cities were afforded a degree of immunity, autonomy, and corporate identity. They and their goods resided in the fonduq (plural fanadiq, Italianized as fondaco), a commercial facility not so different from free-trade zones in modern ports or the kind of recognized foreigners' neighborhoods characteristic of all premodern ports. Venice itself and other European commercial centers had fondaci, such as that of the Germans, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, which is still an identifiable place near the Rialto."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 112.
November 28, 2017