How did the markets?

Fair - a brief history

Fair - (German Jahrmarkt - annual market), a kind of medieval market than local importance, which is a long-distance trade exchange of goods. In the Middle Ages one of the fundamental forms of free trade, mainly wholesale. Fairs were held annually at fixed times, usually on the feast of the church. Civil and religious privileges guaranteed the personal safety of merchants and the inviolability of property (fairground peace, peace of the king, pax Dei), and local authorities were obliged to limit the time the fair guild monopoly oversee sales and regularity of transactions (measure, weight, price). Fairs lasted from 1-2 days to 2 weeks. Sometimes at fairs this time was divided into periods display of goods, contracting and accounting obligations. The massive influx of merchants and customers markets contributed to the flourishing cities fairground. Since the beginning of the twelfth century functioned fairs where goods were exchanged from the Middle East and western and northern parts of Europe. Most were the Champagne fairs. Markets also played a role of commodity exchanges and exhibitions, and the transactions were based mainly on the loan. Developed various forms of obligations and commercial companies. In the sixteenth century with the development of communication and the emergence of new forms of trade fairs role significantly decreased.

As the economy towards capitalism, has changed the nature of the market. Markets are no longer points to trade in goods, and craft exhibitions have become (or a common exhibitions). Fair trade almost entirely ceased to exist in the nineteenth century, but almost immediately began to organize their space mentioned above, fair trials and designs. In the years 1900-1924 were born design fairs, in Paris (1904), Lyon (1916), Basel (1917), Brussels (1919), Padua (1919), Milan (1920), Barcelona (1920), Poznan (1920) , Vienna (1921), Innsbruck (1923), Marseille (1924) and Cologne (1924).

Trade based on exhibiting samples and patterns, proved to be economically profitable and rewarding. The organization markets entail the development of the whole situation, namely, hospitality and transportation.

Today, all countries in the world, which was born and well established tradition of fairs, tends to the creation of specialized trade fairs, targeted topics.

In Poland, the fairs became popular in the thirteenth century in Gdansk, and in later centuries in Lviv, Lutsk, Grodno, Vilnius (mainly forest products), Jaroslaw, Przemysl, Przeworsk (ox), Krakow, Sandomierz, Kazimierz Dolny, Plock, Torun (cereals) and Lublin (Hungarian wines, grain, cattle).

Source: bryk.pl - Knowledge Zone