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Overviews of Crimean-Nogai slave raids on Eastern Europe Name Date Location Perpetrators Casualties Notes Siege of Kiev (1416) June 1416 Kiev and other cities of the Kiev region Golden Horde: Attackers led by Edigu plundered Kiev, but did not take Kiev Castle. [1] First Tatar raid on Ukraine 1447 Ukraine Crimean Khanate
Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe were the slave raids, for over three centuries, conducted by the military of the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde primarily in lands controlled by Russia [b] and Poland-Lithuania [c] as well as other territories, often under the sponsorship of the Ottoman Empire, which provided slaves for the Crimean and Ottoman slave trades.
The Crimean slave trade was the main source of income of the Khanate, and one of the biggest sources of slaves to the Ottoman Empire. The Crimean slave trade in Eastern Europe, and the Barbary slave trade in West and South Europe, were the two main sources of European slaves to the Ottoman Empire.
[5] [6] In 1571, the Crimean Tatars attacked and sacked Moscow, burning everything but the Kremlin and taking thousands of captives as slaves [7] for the Crimean slave trade. In Crimea, about 75% of the population consisted of slaves. [8] The Crimean–Nogai raids into East Slavic lands continued into the 18th century.
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1633 last Crimean–Nogai raid to reach the Oka [8] 1634 major defeat of Nogais by Kalmyks; 1637, 1641–1643: Raids by Nogais and Crimean nobles without permission of the Khan [6]: 90 1640 Crimean Tatars and Nogais terribly ravage Volhynia, Podolia and Galicia, taking a large number of captives. 1643 Kalmyks push back from Astrakhan