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This article describes the main developments in trading activities in the Spiš region. This region was a major trading area, which boasted important international trading routes from prehistoric times. Settlements were built on and near these trading routes, later giving rise to the markets. The settlements engaged in international trade in the Spiš region as early as in the thirteenth century. Besides...
From the early middle Ages until the 18th century the town of Leutschau (Levoca) was one of the five most important centres of commerce, crafts and guilds in Slovakia, its fame extending as far as Hungary. 42 guilds are known to have been active in the town. The first known guild (1470) in Leutschau was that of the blacksmiths. Unfortunately the archives of Leutschau have not been preserved in their...
Butcher craft belongs to the oldest crafts in history of crafts. It was normal to meet butchers or the butcher masters wherever. Butchers belonged to the honest citizen of the cities and they participated in the city government. Butchers masters created the butchers associations which contained most of butchers. The history of the butchers associations is very interesting and encroaches deep into...
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