Crimean slave trade

Crimean slave trade (15th–18th centuries)

During the Early Modern age the Crimean Khanate (1441–1783) was a major center of the international slave trade. The Crimean slave trade was the main source of income of the Khanate. The Crimean slave trade in Eastern Europe, and the Barbary slave trade in Western and Southern Europe, were the two main sources of European slaves to the Ottoman Empire.