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Vatiza

Ancient name
Polemonium
Modern name
Fatsa
Modern country
Turkey
Vatiza lies between Simisso and Girisonda on the southern shore of the Black Sea; like many of its neighbors, it was an important Genoese trading post in the later Middle Ages, before the conquest of the Empire of Trebizond by the Ottomans in 1460–1. Campbell #1272; Gordeev 84.
Coordinates
41.03, 37.51
World Historical Gazetteer
https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364365

The toponym Vatiza appears in La Sfera in the following places:

04.34.01

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Map of the location P154

Variant spellings of Vatiza in Sfera manuscripts

Variant Manuscripts
batiz[...] NYPL3
battiza Ashb7
va[ti]zza Pal5
Vanzia Parm2
Varisa Med3, Par3
VARISA Ashb3, Wie1
varissa Fn8
Varissa Ricc6
variza Bal
vasi [?] Ricc1
vati[za] Chig2, Pal6
Vatiss[a] Vat2
Vatissa Ricc11, Ro2
vatissa Med2
Vatiza BL02, Barb4, Clas2, Con1, Fo, He1, Morg, Par2, Par4, Per2, Pnc4, Ricc14, Ricc15, Ricc9, Vat3
vatiza Chig1, Fn12, He3, Laur5, ME2, Marc1, NB, Pad1, Pal8, Pnc3, Ricc12, Spe, Yale4
vatizia Borg, Fn3, Pnc5
Vatizia Cap1, Marc2, NYPL2, Ricc17
vatizza BL01, Barb3, Con4, Fn6, Fn9, Ricc8, Urb1
Vatizza Con3, Cs1, Laur3, Luc2, Magl2, New
Vatizzia Tre
Vatt[...] Cors2
vattiza Ashb7
yatissa Ricc13
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Vatiza.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/vatiza/.