Venice granted Byzantine trade privileges
1082
Emperor Alexios I, desperate for naval help against the Normans, granted Venetian merchants tax-free access to Byzantine markets in exchange for their war galleys. The privilege, generous beyond anything previously given, laid the foundations of Venetian commercial dominance in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries to come. Venetian warehouses soon lined the Golden Horn in Constantinople, and their merchants grew richer than most Byzantine aristocrats.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.