Late Middle Ages · Europe · Exploration
1317
Venetian galleys establish the Flanders route
1317
Venice inaugurated its state-organized galley convoys to Bruges and London, threading the Strait of Gibraltar to link Mediterranean spice with Atlantic wool. The muda fleets sailed on fixed schedules, armed against pirates, each galley a floating warehouse. It was the first regular commercial sea route between southern and northern Europe.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.