User:Gilgamesz84/Slavery of the Slavic people
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Slavery of the Slavs - a long-term process of mass selling of Slavs as slaves, mainly to Arabs, and also to Greeks, Italians, French, Turks and other nations; led by the Jews, who considered the Slavs to be Canaanites, and to a large extent by the Italians, Germans, Scandinavians and Tatars. The social phenomenon of accepting the special enslavement of the Slavs in Western and Southern Europe in the Middle Ages. Resulting in deonymisation of the ethnonym Slavic in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Germanic and Romance languages. The appellative becoming a colloquial term for a slave, and finally a common word meaning slave.