title: Frontier on the Water: Conflict and Interaction of Balkan-Black Sea Shipbuilding Traditions of the 16th and 18th Centuries
abstract: The article considers the directions of mutual influence of shipbuilding traditions in the Black Sea basin and in the area of the European frontier of the 16th - 18th centuries, the process of evolution of specific shipbuilding forms. The article is based on written evidence of the 16th - 17th centuries, research results of documents of the Ottoman Empire, archival documents and printed documents on the history of the Russian fleet of the 18th century, archeological data, reference books on ship
journal: Güneydoğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi / The Journal of South-Eastern European Studies