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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 Black Sea slave trade was a center of the slave trade between Europe and the rest of the world from antiquity until the 19th century. [1] One of the major and most significant slave trades of the Black Sea region was the trade of the Crimean Khanate, known as the Crimean slave trade.
Crimean Tatar has a unique position among the Turkic languages because its three "dialects" belong to three different (sub)groups of Turkic. This makes the classification of Crimean Tatar as a whole difficult. UNESCO ranked Crimean Tatar as one of the most endangered languages that are under serious threat of extinction (severely endangered) in ...
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
The slaves were captured in southern Russia, Poland-Lithuania, Moldavia, Wallachia, and Circassia by Tatar horsemen in a trade known as the "harvesting of the steppe". In Podolia alone, about one-third of all the villages were destroyed or abandoned between 1578 and 1583. [4]
EXCLUSIVE: Laura Trevelyan has said that her professional success can be traced back to Britain’s colonial history after quitting the BBC this week to tackle her family’s slave trade legacy.
Joe Biden will use his visit to Angola on Tuesday, the first by a U.S. president to the sub-Saharan African country, to mark the two nations' shared history in the transatlantic slave trade. Biden ...
The slave trade was the backbone of the economy of the Crimean Khanate. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] The Crimeans frequently mounted raids into the Danubian principalities , Poland–Lithuania , and Muscovy to enslave people whom they could capture; for each captive, the khan received a fixed share (savğa) of 10% or 20%.