Implementation of the 1838 Anglo-Turkish Convention on Izmir'S Trade
European and Minority Merchants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7933607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elena Frangakis-Syrett, Elena Frangakis‐syrett (Queens College, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Pages | 91-112 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299 |
| Publisher | Antiquity Publications (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15184/s0896634600000510 |
| OpenAlex | W2481425215 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
In the last decades of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Izmir experienced tremendous economic growth, mainly as a result of growth in the world economy. In addition, the French Revolution and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars resulted in the collapse of French economic domination in the area. As a result, Ottoman minority merchants experienced an equally tremendous economic growth (Frangakis-Syrett, 1987, pp. 73-86). Britain replaced France as the principal trading partner of Izmir, while the economic growth of the port-city as well as that of the minority merchants continued strong. It was in this period of increasing commercial activity that the Anglo-Turkish Convention was signed between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire on 16 August 1838 to come into effect in western Anatolia on March 1839. The Treaty, which subsequently was signed by all the European States as well as the United States and the Ottoman Empire, aimed at removing obstacles to free trade in the Empire for the merchants of these states. It was to achieve that by removing an array of local or additional duties paid for the export of Ottoman goods or the import and circulation of all other goods, manufactured or otherwise, and by setting a fixed rate of five percent duty on imports and twelve percent on exports—nine percent on purchasing at the place of growth and three percent on exportation
Ancient history · Duty · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Empire · International trade · Political science · Treaty · Turkish · Historical Turkish Studies · History · Law · Ottoman and Turkish Studies · Ottoman Empire History and Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2011 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |