>The Volga Bulgarian slave trade took place in the Volga Bulgar Emirate in modern Eastern Russia.>The Volga Bulgarians did not only buy slaves from other people, but also conducted their own slave raids to supply slaves for their slave trade. To perform slave raids was a common practice among the Nomadic people of the Central Asian Steppe, and the Volga Bulgarians conducted slave raids toward neighboring peoples, particularly the Slavic Rus people.>The Volga Bulgarian slave trade and its connection with the slave trade via Bukhara to the Caliphate continued to the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. Volga Bulgaria was crushed by the Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria in 1236–1237.
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>>18129232Sad those ancient MENA people racemixed with the Slavs and created more Jewish genetics.
>We wuz peaceful traders n shieet!
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>>18129232There was exactly 0 Slavic Rus people in the era of Volga Bulgaria. Rus people (who were Germanic/Finnic) however did slaving raids against Slavs and traded them with Volga Bolgars.>As for the Rus, they live on an island ... that takes three days to walk round and is covered with thick undergrowth and forests; it is most unhealthy. ... They harry the Slavs, using ships to reach them; they carry them off as slaves and…sell them. They have no fields but simply live on what they get from the Slav's lands. ... When a son is born, the father will go up to the newborn baby, sword in hand; throwing it down, he says, "I shall not leave you with any property: You have only what you can provide with this weapon."—Ibn Rustah
