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• Λιάτα, Ευτυχία

The subject of this article is the life and especially the commercial activity of a Greek merchant of the diaspora, Georgios Antonios Melos. In the 1670s, at a young age, he left his native Athens and emigrated to Spain, the country of his mother’s origin. He first worked on the behalf of Spanish traders as a travelling merchant and also as an independent trader travelling to various markets in the Levant. He would soon have his own shop of colonial goods in Madrid, where he lived with his family until roughly the early eighteenth century. From 1712, now alone subsequent to the death of his family, he made Venice his home and initiated a commercial collaboration with his two brothers in Nauplion. For 20 years (he died in 1732), Georgios Melos engaged in varied and profitable commercial activities, mainly as corrispodente for other merchants, Greek, Italian and Spanish, but also on his own account, participating in a dense commercial network that spread to markets in Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Italy and Spain. His case is representative of that of a medium-scale Greek commercial operator in the second half of the seventeenth century and the first decades of the eighteenth.

• History and Archaeology

• Ιστορία
• Οικονομική ιστορία

856:https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/4041, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.259

• http://historicalreview.org/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/259