QUOD Non Iretur Ad Tanam. Karpov S.P. History of Tana (Azov) in the 13th – 15th Centuries. Saint-Petersburg: Aletheia, 2021. Vol. 1: Tana in 13th – 14th Centuries. 378 p.

The Review deals with concept of becoming, and developing of the multi-ethnic, and multi-confessional city on the border of the eastern, and western civilizations – Tana (Azak) into Don’s mouth. Its rapid growth was in times of global stress, the great pandemic in the middle of the 14th century which began in Yuan empire, and spread along the Great Silk road to the West, the decline of old thousand-year Byzantine’s thalassocracy, the rise of new Venice’s, and Genoa’s thalassocracies, unfolding any bloody naval wars between them for the right to rule over world trade flows through Tana, the turmoil crippled seemingly stable empires – Trebizond, and Gazaria, as in Italian documents of that era called the Golden horde. Tana (Azak) was an union of any urban subjects in one territory separated by fortress walls, and moats, the Venetian, and Genoese trading factories with rights of extraterritoriality, and led by consuls, the Armenian, Greek, Slavic, Alan, and Jewish quarters with the elements of self-governance, as well as the Tatar Azak, the center of ulus with the residence of the bek, treasury, and mint.

Tana, Azak, Byzantium, Venice, Genoa, Gazaria, Golden Horde, Trebizond, Empire, Great Silk Road, 13 – 14 Centuries, Factories, Quarters, Consul, Bek, Ulus