The Language of the Roman Empire

Re:The Language of the Roman Empire by troels on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @06:16AM (#17081233)

Venetians, and especially the Genoese had large slave populations at the time. This source quotes up to 10% of the population being slaves around 1400:

https://books.google.dk/books?id=G4dECgAAQBAJ&pg=PT28&lpg=PT...

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Re:The Language of the Roman Empire by paganel on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:31AM (#17082204)

Yeah, especially the Genoese. They dominated the Black Sea slave market all throughout the 1300s and the early 1400s, they used to buy them from the Mongols, on the Black Sea Northern shores, and ferry them (so to speak) down South to Pera (across the Golden Horn from Constantinople) where they were selling them.

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Re:The Language of the Roman Empire by Balero on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:56PM (#17084012)

Thanks! I'll take a look.

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