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Saqaliba
Sign in to saveAlso known as Slavos, Sklavenos
thumb|upright=1.3|The Rus trading slaves with the Khazars: Trade in the East Slavs|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. thumb|Slavic and Black slaves in Córdoba; illustration from the Cantigas de Santa Maria thumb|Iron restraints, 11th or 12th century, from Neu Niekohr thumb|Hoard of Islamic silver coins (circa 820CE) discovered at [[Anklam, West Pomerania]] thumb|Slav, , Kraków. thumb|Grody czerwienskie (Czerwień Cities or Cherven Gords) szlaki
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Saqaliba slave trade
- Central Asian route
- Balkan slave trade
- Prague slave trade
- Other slave trade routes
- Saqaliba slave market by place
- Rus and Bulgars
- Aghlabids and Fatimids
- al-Andalus and Maghreb
- Slave trade
- Saqalabid dynasties
- Valencia
- Dénia
- Tortosa
- Almeria
- Usage
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|upright=1.3|The Rus trading slaves with the Khazars: Trade in the East Slavs|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. thumb|Slavic and Black slaves in Córdoba; illustration from the Cantigas de Santa Maria thumb|Iron restraints, 11th or 12th century, from Neu Niekohr thumb|Hoard of Islamic silver coins (circa 820CE) discovered at [[Anklam, West Pomerania]] thumb|Slav, , Kraków. thumb|Grody czerwienskie (Czerwień Cities or Cherven Gords) szlaki
Saqaliba (, singular ) 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 Middle Greek slavos/sklavenos (Slav), which in Hispano-Arabic came to designate Slavic slaves.
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