La actividad comercial de los puertos vascos y cántabros medievales en el Atlántico

• Main Author: Beatriz Arizaga Bolumburu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; French; Italian
• Published: Universidad de Sevilla 2008
• Subjects: Cantabrian and Basque ports; France; Flanders; England; Commerce; History (General) and history of Europe; D; History of Spain; DP1-402; Medieval history; D111-203; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/ec14dcfba2be47b38d957cc2225e2d00

The small seaports of the Cantabrian Coast – particularly, the Basque and Cantabrian ports – direct their economic activity towards the sea, given that the land where they are located is scarce in food products. They maintain commercial relationships with the ports on the North Atlantic coast of France, with Flanders and England, as well as with the ports on the South Atlantic coast of Portugal, Andalusia and with ports on the Barbary Coast. The intensive commercial activity of this network of small seaports is made possible by their contact with inland towns, which provide them with raw materials and labour and which redistribute the goods arriving at the ports