title: UKRAINE’S LANDS as an IMPORTANT FACTOR of the DEVELOPMENT of TRADE and GEOPOLITICAL CONTACTS according to the DATA from ARABOGRAPHIC WRITTEN SOURCES
abstract: bstract. The purpose of the study: to analise the historical conditions of rising and development of trade routes, as well as the geopolitical processes during 16th -18th centuries between the countries of the historicogeographic areal from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, which are referred to in Arabic and Turkish-Ottoman written sources. Implementation of the set up purpose has been achieved by observing the general theoretical and methodical principles of Historiography and Source Studies ai
journal: Східноєвропейський історичний вісник