СВИЩОВ – ТЪРГОВСКИ ЦЕНТЪР ПРЕЗ ВЪЗРАЖДАНЕТО
SVISHTOV – A TRADING CENTER DURING THE REVIVAL

Summary/Abstract: In the Ottoman-Turkish registers Svishtov was marked as a town in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. The town emerged as a significant trading place and its port became the center of economic life in the Danubian part of the Turkish empire. The earliest mentioned national fairs were Uzundzhovo at the Troyan Monastery, Serres, Sliven, Svishtov, and others. The town was connected with new roads – Pleven, Veliko Tarnovo and Russe, Varna. It was a leading commercial and craft center through which passed the main trading route to Wallachia and Transylvania, as well as Western and Central Europe. The port was the center of so-called “Sailing fleet” in the 1860s and 1870s. The establishment of the “Danube ship company” with a major share holder, the merchant Nikolaki Tsvyatkov Stanchov, who had moved in Svishtov, marked the beginning of the Danube River shipping. The role of Svishtov’s port as a national, international portcan be defined as European.

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