Saw this Muslim pirate defense outpost in Manarola while hiking around Cinque Terre on the Italian Riviera. The Italians here had been keeping Turkish, Berber, and other marauders away since the fifteenth century.
-Kel Sends
Saw this Muslim pirate defense outpost in Manarola while hiking around Cinque Terre on the Italian Riviera. The Italians here had been keeping Turkish, Berber, and other marauders away since the fifteenth century.
-Kel Sends
A good reminder that over about 5 centuries something like 6 million (bare minimum!) Europeans were abducted at sea or in coastal raids, from the Med through the British Isles, and sold into slavery throughout the Islamic world.
The phrase “The coast is clear” is said to have originated as a report that no Moorish slave ships were in sight.
Nobody reads or remembers history, this isnt a new war
When should we bomb vikings?
Your “Privilege” is showing you twit. Thank the Nordic people for what we have in the west today, and GFY because of “people” like you that cow-tow to that BS and Europe is being overrun again.
lol sure
right on brother, nice one.
buutttt…. only America bought and sold slaves…(sarcasm)..
Your numbers are way off. Those numbers would constitute 6-8% of the entire population of Europe in the middle ages. There were slaves but much lower numbers.
Not a big population after the plague wiped out 50-60% of the population during the dark ages.
Perhaps you missed the part about it occurring over the span of 500 years…
As well as continuing in recent times with the fairer sex being the preferred target(mostly) of human trafficking involving that particular region of the world.
CO1 is correct; those numbers are off, even taking into account a 500 year span. Of interest is Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” for explanations on European demographics around this timeframe.
Also worth reading is Thomas Sowell’s “Conquests and Cultures: An International History”, especially concerning the impact of slavery across the millennia for several cultural groups.
“The Black Death, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, wiped out 30 to 50 percent of Europe’s population between 1347 and 135.”
http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2014/05/08/black_death_the_upside_to_killing_half_of_europe.html
No fudging!
My beloved motherland , nowday our government is taking them in by the thousands every week , what different times we are living , uh ?
It is very sad. A lot of us Murican’s are with ya’ll that see the dangers.
Been there. That cove is so beautiful. Great food too. That cannon new? Wasn’t there in 2007 when I went.
Cinque Terre is my favorite spot on earth.