@caitlinrgreen haha no problm.i will search it anyhow i think burial ground is most appropriate.Thanks for answering everytime Dr Caitlin :)
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@Umarkarim89 I find the past fascinating, but not convinced I would want to live in it! Although the present can be equally dispiriting :-/ - 1 more reply
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@caitlinrgreen oh God thats revealing so it means practically there were British slaves in the central asian lands ruled by Samanid rulers? -
@Umarkarim89 Oh, v likely: clear evidence of Vikings taking slaves from Britain/Ireland. However, majority prob slavic ppl, e.g. from Poland -
@Umarkarim89 Here's Ibn Fadlan in 922 on Viking slavers arriving to trade, & al-Jahiz in mid-9thC on slavic slaves:pic.twitter.com/809OuQPpuq
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@Umarkarim89 Both via 'Dirhams for Slaves', very interesting paper given at All Souls, Oxford:https://www.academia.edu/1764468/Dirhams_for_slaves._Investigating_the_Slavic_slave_trade_in_the_tenth_century …
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