After the fall of Roman Empire, Amalfi was the first town to establish commecial relations with the Eastern Roman Empire, carrying and selling in the whole Southern Italy many exotic and luxury goods as carpets, silk, spices, paper. So Amalfi was the first among the Four Maritime Republics and reached its top during the 10th and 11th centuries, with merchant colonies in the main harbours of the Mediterannean Sea: Byzantium, Alexandria, Beirut, Cyprus. The Maritime Laws of the city, explaned in the famous "Tabula Amalphitana" (Amalfi's Board), were for centuries the international mercantile code accepted and taken as model.

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