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The Balkan slave trade went by route from the Balkans via Venetian slave traders across the Adriatic and the Aegean Seas to the Islamic Middle East, from the 7th-century until the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the 15th-century.
The Balkan slave trade contributed to the establishment of the Republic of Venice as a prosperous trading empire in the Mediterranean Sea in the early Middle Ages. In the 15th century, the Balkan slave trade was closed of from Europe due to the Muslim Ottoman conquest of the Balkans, and consequently integrated to the Ottoman slave trade. The ...
The History of the Balkan Peninsula; From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1966) Stanković, Vlada, ed. (2016). The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-1326-5. Stavrianos, L.S. The Balkans Since 1453 (1958), major scholarly history; online free to ...
A derogatory term for a person of South Slavic/Balkan descent (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, etc.) with extremely chauvinistic and racist connotations. Četnik, Četo (Croatia, Bosnia) Croatians and Bosniaks use this term to refer to people of Serbian descent.
The first Balkan tribe to be defeated by the Celts was the Illyric Autariatae, who, during the 4th century BC, had enjoyed a hegemony over much of the central Balkans, centred on the Morava valley. [2] An account of Celtic tactics is revealed in their attacks on the Ardiaei. [further explanation needed]
The first Balkan theme was created in Thrace in 680 AD. [63] By 695, a second theme, that of " Hellas " (or "Helladikoi"), was established, probably in eastern central Greece . [ 63 ] Subduing the Slavs in the themes was simply a matter of accommodating the needs of the Slavic elites and providing them with incentives for their inclusion into ...
Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Croatia (yellow) joined the EU in 2013. The Western Balkans is a political neologism coined to refer to Albania and the territory of the former Yugoslavia, except Slovenia, since the early 1990s.
Cergetar/Cergar (of Turkish origin and meaning "tent-dweller"). [5] Among the Romani, ethnic Albanians, in addition to being ‘’gadjo’’, may be referred to as “whites”. [6] "White hand" may also be used by them to refer to Albanians as well as non-Roma minorities such as Greeks, Aromanians and Slavs. [7] [8]