Saqaliba
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Saqaliba is a term used in medieval Arabic sources to refer to Slavs, and other peoples of Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe. The term originates from the Medieval Greek slavos/sklavenos, which in
The Rus trading slaves with the Khazars: Trade in the East Slavic Camp by Sergei Ivanov (1913). Many saqaliba slaves came from Europe to the Abbasid Caliphate by the Volga trade route from Eastern Europe via the Khazars and the Caspian Sea.
Slavic and Black slaves in Córdoba; illustration from the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Iron restraints, 11th or 12th century, from Neu Niekohr
Hoard of Islamic silver coins (circa 820CE) discovered at Anklam, West Pomerania
Prague slave trade
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The Prague slave trade refers to the slave trade conducted between the Duchy of Bohemia and the Caliphate of Córdoba in Moorish al-Andalus in roughly the 9th–11th century in the Early Middle Ages. The
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…of Bohemia, Christianized in the early 10th century, became a major center of the European slave trade by the mid-10th century. The revenue from the Prague slave trade has been named as one of the economic foundations of the Bohemian state. Bohemia was located in a religious border zone, bordering with pagan Slavic…
The Goddess Zorya of the Slavic religion. The fact that the Slavs were pagans legitimized them as targets for enslavement in the eyes of Christians, Muslims and Jews.
The Radhanite trade routes.
Andalusian coins