Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
by paganel on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:34AM
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Re: Slavs and colonialism, most of the money that built the Italian city of Genoa in the 1100s to the 1300s came from selling and facilitating the selling of Slav war prisoners (i.e. slaves) captured and transported from the Northern shores of the Black Sea to the Constantinople area (i.e. on the Southern shore).
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Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
by asa4akj on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:00AM
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The word slave actually comes from Slav
Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:02AM
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I had the same reflex, but the OP did not write that "Slav" means "slave", they worte that "war prisoner" signified "slave".
Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
by paganel on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:17AM
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It's still kind of disputed, that's why I left that out of the conversation.
Forgetting for a moment about the English term "slave", it's interesting that in Italian slaves are called "schiavi", with the singular "schiavo", while in old Romanian we used to called Slav people (who were different from us, Romance-speaking people) as "șchei", with the singular "șchiau/schiau", the second form at singular pretty similar to the independently formed "schiavo" from Italian (which means "slave", like I said).
Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday August 10, 2020 @09:31AM
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And in Greek, we say "Σλάβος" (Slav) which is only one word away from "σκλάβος" (sclave) so I've always thought that the two were connected, until very recently, when I checked wikipedia just to be sure and found out that I was probably wrong.