Abstract:

This article intends to describe the activities of trade of the British vessels in the Black Sea in the early 19th century on the basis of the composition of the goods, the geographical extent of the trade and navigation and the general course of trade. The primary sourced utilized during the research are the Ottoman registers pertaining to the foreign vessels passing through the Turkish straits. As a result of the dependence on source material, the activities of trade are confined to the trade and navigation between the Black Sea and the outside World. The results of the research has shown that the trade activities, in spite of occasional disruptions by political developments, tended to increase through the research period; there was a srong flow of goods from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and the Western Europe, though mainly of an agricultural and natural character; the trade with the Black Sea bore the characteristics of both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic trade; the industrial and colonial products as the corollary of the contemporary economic developments were reflected in the composition of goods; and the islands under British protectorate in Eastern Mediterranean at that time became the chief agents of the trade

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