In the period that can be proved by archives dating from 1283 to 1800 besides some products for everyday use wood and various wooden fabrics were shipped from Albania to Dubrovnik. Documents talking about purchase and transport of wood were rare till the end of the fifties of the fourteenth century. It was the period of Venetian sovereignty when Venice had the leading monopoly in sea-borne trade. In 1358 when Dubrovnik was freed from Venetian sovereignty ship-building was immediately increased and import of wood was raised, too.
At the close of the fourteenth centruy wood was not any more used as building material for dwellings because stone gradually replaced wood in buildings. Wood became the chief trading article in Dubrovnik not earlier than in the forties of the fifteenth century. From that time it was profitable to supply wood for heating.
Disturbances started by the appearance of the Moslem pirates (about 1520) to the Albanian coast and the prices of half-fabrics raised and the export to Dubrovnik was immediately reduced.
Wood was considerably less imported to the beginning of the Crete War (1645). From 1640 to 1700 there was no evidence left about the shipment and buying of wood from Albania to Dubrovnik. There were some evidences about the certain export of Albanian wood to Dubrovnik not before the second half of the eighteenth century.
In further chapters the author talks about the woodmen’s activities (seccatores) in Albanian woods between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries dealing further with export of Albanian wood to Italy mostly to Apulia only sometimes to Venice. At last he considers that the low prices of wood enabled extraordinary high profits
