"Saqaliba", white European slaves were mostly of Slavic origin and considered luxury imports....
Slavery is a word well understood, but in the minds of most people, it is associated with the black slave trade from Africa to America across the Atlantic. Many people are not aware that a parallel form of slavery existed in the kidnapping of white men and women by North Africans and Arabs. The purpose of these captures was slavery. Another aspect of this slavery was white women (preferably virgins) to populate the harems of the Arab Sheikhs and Beys. The Arabs and the Moors were the foremost exponents of this trade as they had a penchant for fair and golden-haired white girls. This trade lasted much longer than the black slave trade and overshot it by hundreds of years.
The black trade was stopped by an act of legislation. This did not happen in the case of the white slave trade which ended only after the Arabs and Moors were militarily crushed by the European powers.
The onset of white slave trade began when the Muslim arms conquered almost the entire North Africa and Spain. It was at its zenith when the Mediterranean Sea almost became a Muslim controlled lake with the Ottoman Empire at its zenith. Even after the defeat of the Muslims, the slave trade was taken over by Muslim pirates called the Corsairs.
The Corsairs were a daredevil lot and scoured the entire Mediterranean Sea. They also raided the coastal villages of Europe and kidnapped white girls. These girls have spirited away to the harems of the Arabs and sold at auctions where they earned a high price for the kidnapper.
White men were also kidnapped for ransom and to work as slaves. There are reports that King Richard the lion heart was also kidnapped and released when a large ransom was paid for him. As far as the kidnapping of girls from the European coastal villages is concerned, the effect was one of fear and many villages shifted deeper away from the coast, to escape from the marauding Muslim pirates.
Later the Muslim pirates started a preference for Slav girls who were fair and had golden hair. Raiding parties roamed the Baltic and the Aegean Sea for these girls.
The magnitude of the slavery can only be estimated as no exact figures are available. Generally, it is estimated that the figure would be over a million. The Corsairs were the main exponents of this white slave trade and they also extracted a levy from the ships that sailed the Mediterranean Sea. In the period after 1609 in a span of a decade, almost 400 British ships were captured and the men made slaves and released only after a ransom was paid. Other who could not pay languished in Arab farms as workers and slaves till death.
Later Britain paid a tribute and their ships were spared. But nations and settlements close to the sea in SE Europe and the Slav areas bore the brunt of this slavery.
A fact that has now emerged is the massive kidnapping and abduction of white girls as slaves for the harems of the Arabs. This menace lasted for hundreds of years and it continued until the 19th century. In 1814 the European powers signed a convention to outlaw the attacks of the Berbers and the Ottoman Turks.
The Christian nations now asserted and the rising White power inflicted heavy defeats on the Corsairs and the Turks. This rising European power led to the demise of the white slave trade. A point worth noting is that the slave trade in white women only stopped after the defeat of the Turks and Muslims and not by any act or edict.
#archaeohistories
Ma si può vivere in queste condizioni?! Io pago l'abbonamento annuale ma onestamente capisco chi utilizza i mezzi gratuitamente, questa situazione non è sostenibile per chi frequenta i mezzi pubblici quotidianamente...
#atac@eugenio_patane@gualtierieurope@Roma@romamobilita
18 minuti di attesa per le corse del #2tram#ATAC spina dorsale del #trasportopubblico#Flaminio, alle 11 di un giorni feriale di giugno.
Le scuole solo chiuse, gli uffici cominciano i turni di ferie, ma noi nel quartiere ci viviamo!
#PDFango scusa, eh?
Enormous crowds today in Padua, Italy, for the Feast of St. Anthony of Lisbon, as the relics of the great Portuguese saint, including his incorrupt tongue that gloriously proclaimed the Gospel, are processed through the streets of the Italian city.
Continuano a volere introdurre nuove tasse o ad alzarle, mentre chi vuole ridurre la spesa pubblica?
Io porto spesso l'esempio di #Atac, gestita dal Comune di Roma (ma ce ne sono tanti altri).
12 miliardi di euro pubblici in 15 anni.
Quasi 1500 persone al giorno che non si presentano al lavoro (assenteismo).
Obiettivi non raggiunti e il controllore che è anche il proprietario al 100% dell'azienda (comune) che non fa nessuna gara trasparente per l'assegnazione del servizio.
A #Ottaviano "sono stati sostituiti i servoscala con nuovi di ultima generazione" cit.
A #Cipro "troppo spesso #ascensore non funziona e abbiamo chiesto ad #ATAC di garantire il funzionamento costantem" cit.
Anche oggi #SanPietro NON ACCESSIBILE 🚫♿️ ai disabili, con #MetroA
Antonio Di Pietro: “La stampa non si querela ma il diffamatore sì. La mia carriera politica è finita grazie a Report: io prosciolto, loro condannati”
L'intervento dell'ex magistrato e politico al dibattito contro le querele le querele intimidatorie organizzato da Il Riformista e L'Unità.
Di Pietro ha poi aggiunto: "Preferisco vivere in un paese dove ci sono dieci, cento, mille Gabanelli piuttosto che nessuno. Ma io ho avuto giustizia perché conoscendo le regole del giorno sono andato a difendermi. Chi non ha questa possibilità, come fa?".
Poi sulla lettera scritta nei giorni scorsi da 33 giornalisti al Capo dello Stato, Sergio Mattarella, per chiedere che sulle stragi del 1992 e 1993 “si ampli il campo delle indagini” andando oltre la pista legata a “mafia e appalti”, Di Pietro sbotta: "Quando voi giornalisti rivendicate il vostro diritto all'informazione, vi rendete conto che troppe volte ne approfittate? Anche questi 33 giornalisti che strumentalizzano il Capo dello Stato per smontare sul piano della comunicazione ciò che le sentenze hanno stabilito e cioè che delle persone sono state assolte perché quel reato non l'hanno commesso".