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Silk, one of the most important products in the Byzantine world, comprised a commodity not only in use within the Empire but also an item widely traded and a valued article of diplomatic gift exchange. It is widely assumed that the major source of the Boeotian region's wealth was silk, and that the Venetian merchants established themselves in Thebes because of Boeotian silk. In the Ottoman period, from the fifteenth century onwards, the production of silk cloth continued, without, however, the same intensity of the preceding Late Medieval era. |
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