Legăturile Bizanţului cu Dobrogea în secolul al XIV-lea
The Relations between Byzantium and Dobrogea in the Fourteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: The Relations between Byzantium and Dobrogea in the Fourteenth Century. The long Byzantine domination from the territory of today’s Dobrogea – absolute during the tenth and twelfth centuries and partial between the early thirteenth century and the early fifteenth century – occupies an important part in the Romanian-Byzantine relationships. However, the ancient Romanian historiography has not granted them a very high importance; the few existing information come exclusively from foreign sources. It was only the Romanian historiography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that gave them their rightful importance. In the fourteenth century, a closure in the territorial reunification process within the area between the Danube and the Black Sea was noticeable in broad lines. Also noticeable is the apparition on the map of the Romanian feudal state set between these two landmarks. The so-called „Carvona” or „Cavarna Country” was the nucleus of Dobrogean despotate and it was the region set between today’s Mangalia and Varna. This region was mentioned for the first time around 1230 in a privilege granted by King Asan II to the traders form Raguza. The information we currently have is, in fact, presenting a rather different and complex political situation in the region and this study wants to focus precisely upon this aspect.

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