Editing Ancona (section)

====The Greek community of Ancona====
{{See also|Republic of Ancona#Communities present in the Republic}}
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Ancona, as well as Venice, became a very important destination for merchants from the [[Ottoman Empire]] during the 16th century. The Greeks formed the largest of the communities of foreign merchants. They were refugees from former Byzantine or Venetian territories that were occupied by the Ottomans in the late 15th and 16th centuries. The first Greek community was established in Ancona early in the 16th century.