Negustori din Imperiul Otoman în comerţul Sibiului, 1614-1623
Marchands de l’Empire Ottoman dans le commerce de la ville de Sibiu, 1614-1623

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to investigate the role played by the Ottoman merchants in the Sibiu oriental trade in the first decades of the seventeenth century. The label “Ottoman merchant” is a conventional one, as it includes all traders coming from the Empire, regardless of their ethnic origin (Greek, Bulgarian, Turkish, Armenian, Jewish or Serbian). This research is based on the five extant customs registers from Sibiu, dating from 1616 to 1623. The article includes ten quantitative tables: an overall table with all the merchants registered in the Sibiu customs from 1614-1623, a table with the average, minimal and maximal value of their transports and eight detailed tables, comprising the merchants’ names, their place of origin and the customs taxes they paid, which had been added as an appendix. After discussing the methodological challenges raised by the study of this peculiar type of sources, the customs register, this article provides an analysis of the customs registers data. The general qualitative analysis is accompanied by several case studies of merchants coming from the Ottoman Empire, which were involved in the seventeenth century Sibiu oriental trade.

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