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This polity benefitted from Andronikos II granting a hereditary “lordship” around alum mines in Phocaea. (-5[1])This polity controlled exports of mastic gum (15[1])from the island of Chios (15[1]-5[1])through the (-5[1])maona (15[1])system of tax (15[1])farming. After (15[1])a formal (-5[1])admiral was made “perpetual censor,” (-5[1])the number of this city’s (15[1]-5[1])aristocratic (15[1])“Alberghi” (-5[1])families (15[1])was restricted (15[2]-5[1])to 28. (15[1]-5[1])This city consolidated (15[2])its war debt by founding the (*) Bank of Saint George. (10[3]-5[1])By the Treaty (-5[1])of (10[2])Nymphaeum, (10[1]-5[2])this city gained exclusive trading rights to the Black Sea, (10[1]-5[2])leading (10[1])it (-5[1])to establish (10[1])colonies (10[1])like Caffa, (10[3])a possible (10[1])entry point (10[1])of the Black (10[1])Death into Europe. (-5[1])This city’s doges were (-5[1])limited (-5[2])to two year (-5[1])terms by (0[1])the reforms of Andrea Doria, and had much earlier been defeated by its primary rival in the War of Chioggia (“KYOH-jah”). For 10 points, name this Italian city-state and rival of Venice, (10[2])where Christopher Columbus was born. (10[2])■END■ (10[11]0[2])

ANSWER: Genoa [Republic of Genoa]
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