Place Names in this Book
I have used a number of place names employed by the Venetians and others during the period covered by this book. This is a list of their modern equivalents:
| Acre | Akko (Israel) |
| Adrianople | E dirne (Turkey) |
| Brazza | The island of Braç (Croatia) |
| Butrinto | Butrint (Albania) |
| Caffa | Feodosiya on the Crimean peninsula (Ukraine) |
| Candia | Heraklion (Crete). The Venetians also used Candia to refer to the whole island of Crete. |
| Canea | Chania or Hania (Crete) |
| Cattaro | Kotor (Montenegro) |
| Cerigo | The island of Kythira (Greece) |
| Cerigotto | The island of Antikythira (Greece) |
| Coron | Koroni (Greece) |
| Curzola | The island of Korčula (Croatia) |
| Durazzo | Durrës (Albania) |
| Jaffa | Now part of Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel) |
| Lagosta | The island of Lastovo (Croatia) |
| Lajazzo | Yumurtalık near Adana (Turkey) |
| Lepanto | Nafpaktos (Greece) |
| Lesina | The island of Hvar (Croatia) |
| Modon | Methoni (Greece) |
| Naplion | Naflio or Navplion (Greece) |
| Narenta River | Neretva River (Croatia) |
| Negroponte | The Venetians used this name for both the whole island of Euboea, off the east coast of Greece, and its main town Halkida (or Chalkis) |
| Nicopolis | Nikopol (Bulgaria) |
| Ossero | Osor on the island of Cres (Croatia) |
| Parenzo | Pore (Croatia) |
| Pola | Pula (Croatia) |
| Porto Longo | Harbour on the island of Sapienza (Greece) |
| Ragusa | Dubrovnik (Croatia) |
| Retimo | Rethimno (Crete) |
| Rovigno | Rovinj (Croatia) |
| Salonica | Thessaloniki (Greece) |
| Santa Maura | The island of Lefkadtha or Lefkas (Greece) |
| Saray | The now vanished capital of the Golden Horde, on the river Volga, probably at Selitrennoye near Astrakhan (Russia) |
| Scutari | Shkodër (Albania) |
| Sebenico | Šibenik (Croatia) |
| Sidon | Saïda (Lebanon) |
| Smyrna | Izmir (Turkey) |
| Soldaia | Sudak on the Crimean Peninsula (Ukraine) |
| Spalato | Split (Croatia) |
| Tana | Azov on the sea of Azov (Ukraine) |
| Tenedos | The island of Bozcaada at the mouth of the |
| Dardanelles (Turkey) | |
| Trau | Trogir (Croatia) |
| Trebizond | Trabzon (Turkey) |
| Tripoli | Trablous (Lebanon) |
| Tyre | Sour (Lebanon) |
| Zante | The island of Zakynthos (Greece) |
| Zara | Zadar (Croatia) |
| Zonchio | Later Navarino, the bay of Pylos (Greece) |