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Slavery in the Byzantine Empire : ウィキペディア英語版 | Slavery in the Byzantine Empire
Slavery in the Byzantine Empire was widespread and common throughout its history. Slavery was already common in Classical Greece and in the earlier Roman Empire. The military campaigns and expansion of the empire in the 10th century resulted in a large numbers of slaves. ==Source of slaves==
A main source of slave were prisoners of war, of which there was a great profit to be made.〔 The Skylitzes Chronicle mentions that after the Battle of Adrassos many prisoners of war were sent to Constantinople. They were so numerous that they filled all the mansions and rural regions. Most of the menials in large Byzantine homes were slaves and were very numerous. Danelis of Patras, a wealthy widow in the 9th century, gave a gift of 3,000 slaves to Emperor Basil I.〔 Marcus Louis Rautman, ''Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire'', (Greenwood Publishing, 2006), 22.〕 The eunuch Basil, chancellor during the reign of Basil II, was said to have owned 3,000 slaves and retainers.〔''Trade and Industry'', F.H. Marshall, ''Illustrated Encyclopedia of World History'', Vol. 4, ed. JA Hammerton, (Mittal Publications), (p. 2629 ).〕 Some slaves worked the landed estates of their masters, which declined in later ages. A medieval Arab historian estimates that 200,000 women and children were taken as slaves after the Byzantine reconquest of Crete from the Muslims.〔 Yet parents, living in the Byzantine empire, were forced to sell their children to pay their debts, which Byzantine laws unsuccessfully tried to prevent. After the 10th century the major source of slaves were often Slavs and Bulgars, which resulted from campaigns in the Balkans and lands north of the Black Sea.〔 At the eastern shore of the Adriatic Many Slav slaves were exported to other parts of Europe.〔 Slaves were one of the main articles that Russian (often Vikings) traders dealt in their yearly visit to Constantinople. After the 12th century, the old Greek word "δοῦλος" (''doulos'') obtained a synonym in "σκλάβος" (''sklavos''), perhaps derived from the same root as "Slav".
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