ABSTRACT
Enslaved Finnic people are conspicuous in medieval eastern European trades. Viking traders connected Scandinavian, Mediterranean, Black Sea and Caspian areas. Russian rivers and the southern steppe formed a traditional slave trade area. Rus’, Viking, Jewish, Caucasian and Turkish–Tatar merchants transported slaves to the markets of Byzantium, the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, the Near East, Central Asia and, finally, to the shores of the Indian Ocean. 1
