The Issue of Georgian Captives in the Crimea in the 18th Century / The Issue of Georgian Captives in the Crimea in the 18th Century
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2019

Dagestani mountaineers were engaged in kidnapping people from eastern Georgia throughout the 16th — 18th сenturies. Part of the population kidnapped by the Dagestani mountaineers was dispatched to Istanbul by Turk merchants and part was transported to the North Caucasus, but most often, to the Crimea. In the course of time, the number of Georgian captives for slavery in the Crimea reached several thousand. According to King of Kartl-Kakheti Erekle II, in the 70s of the 18th century, their number