From the Bosphorus to the Atlantic: Genoese Responses to the Ottoman Conquest

In the Ottoman rise, the Genoese lost their maritime empire, but many Genoese stayed on as Ottoman subjects. This article examines the 1455 Ottoman survey of Istanbul alongside Latin sources, arguing that the incentives and opportunities the Ottomans offered to the Genoese to remain after the conquest faded in the decades after 1453, during which the Genoese presence in Ottoman lands contracted, while it burgeoned in Spain and the Atlantic.