Slaves
Bosnians, Serbs, and Croats, were used as slaves throught the Holy Roman Empire. The word Slave comes from Slav, Slavs or Slavic. Christians felt having a "slave" was fine, but only a non Christians one. So large groups of Slavs from both the east and the north of the empire were brought back after battles to be their servants. Slavs at that time had been overrun by the Ottomans -Muslims from the east. The new Islamic Slavs were the best choice for slavery because Slavs were thought to be Unholy, unlike their German, Romanian, and Western European counterparts. Interesting to note: The Romanian term for Slave is, SCLAV also from the Latin SCLAVO. Sclavo, the name the Romans gave to the Illyrians (Bosnians/Albanians) immediate neighbours of the Greeks and Romans.
After the fall of Dacia (Romania) the former Dacian territories of Thrace, present day Eastern Europe were handed over to Rome. "Sclavoniae", the Latin for slaves that came from Serbia has been located in many post-Dacian Latin texts. The Dacian Kingdom (Romania) stretched from the Danube delta in the east, as far west as parts of Germany. As far north as Finland and to the south engulfed all of Bulgaria into parts of Northern Greece. So yes, this means before the Roman Empire came along that Hungary, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Austria, Czech Rep, Poland, Slovacia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, the Ukraine, Macedonia, Bulgaria and parts of Northern Greece were ROMANIAN occupide and ruled.
Bosnians, Serbs, and Croats, were used as slaves throught the Holy Roman Empire. The word Slave comes from Slav, Slavs or Slavic. Christians felt having a "slave" was fine, but only a non Christians one. So large groups of Slavs from both the east and the north of the empire were brought back after battles to be their servants. Slavs at that time had been overrun by the Ottomans -Muslims from the east. The new Islamic Slavs were the best choice for slavery because Slavs were thought to be Unholy, unlike their German, Romanian, and Western European counterparts. Interesting to note: The Romanian term for Slave is, SCLAV also from the Latin SCLAVO. Sclavo, the name the Romans gave to the Illyrians (Bosnians/Albanians) immediate neighbours of the Greeks and Romans.
After the fall of Dacia (Romania) the former Dacian territories of Thrace, present day Eastern Europe were handed over to Rome. "Sclavoniae", the Latin for slaves that came from Serbia has been located in many post-Dacian Latin texts. The Dacian Kingdom (Romania) stretched from the Danube delta in the east, as far west as parts of Germany. As far north as Finland and to the south engulfed all of Bulgaria into parts of Northern Greece. So yes, this means before the Roman Empire came along that Hungary, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Austria, Czech Rep, Poland, Slovacia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, the Ukraine, Macedonia, Bulgaria and parts of Northern Greece were ROMANIAN occupide and ruled.
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