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  2. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    During the slavery in the Ottoman Empire, eunuchs were typically slaves imported from outside their domains. A fair proportion of male slaves were imported as eunuchs. [62] The Ottoman court harem—within the Topkapı Palace (1465–1853) and later the Dolmabahçe Palace (1853–1909) in Istanbul—was under the administration of the eunuchs ...

  3. Christianity in the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Christian liturgical procession from the Ottoman Empire, depicted by Lambert de Vos in 1574. Under the Ottoman Empire's millet system, Christians and Jews were considered dhimmi (meaning "protected") under Ottoman law in exchange for loyalty to the state and payment of the jizya tax. [1] [2] Orthodox Christians were the largest non-Muslim group.

  4. Constantinople slave rebellion of 1618 - Wikipedia

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    The Constantinople slave rebellion of 1618 was an uprising of Christian slaves in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, headed by enslaved Spanish soldiers.The revolt concluded with parts of the city damaged in a fire started by the Spanish, who escaped the city in captured galleys at the head of 2,000 insurgents after burning the Ottoman armada in port.

  5. Firman of 1830 - Wikipedia

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    The Ottoman Empire practiced the Islamic Law, which allowed Muslims to enslave war captives. During the Greek War of Independence, many Greek men, women and children had been captured and sold as slaves in Ottoman slave markets. One such incident was the Chios massacre of 1822. This had caused great indignation in Europe on behalf of the ...

  6. Barbary slave trade - Wikipedia

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    The Barbary slave trade involved the capture and selling of European slaves at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states. European slaves were captured by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to Ireland , and the southwest of Britain , as far north as Iceland and into the Eastern ...

  7. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters - Wikipedia

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    Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500–1800 is a 2003 book by Robert C. Davis, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book concerns the Barbary slave trade. According to Davis, the number of Europeans taken in by Barbary slavers exceeded 1,000,000 and was up to 1,250,000, higher ...

  8. George of Hungary - Wikipedia

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    George of Hungary (c. 1422–1502) [1] was an Ottoman slave that escaped and reverted from Islam to Christianity, writing afterwards about his experiences. [2] As per his own description, when George was 15 or 16, he was taken prisoner and sold into slavery when the Ottoman Turks invaded the town of Mühlbach (now Sebeș) in 1438.

  9. History of slavery in the Muslim world - Wikipedia

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    As late as 1908, female slaves were still sold in the Ottoman Empire. Concubinage was a central part of the Ottoman slave system throughout the history of the institution. [154] [155] Ottoman painting of Balkan children taken as soldier-slaves. A member of the Ottoman slave class, called a kul in Turkish, could achieve high status.