TY - JOUR T1 - Slavery and Slave Prices in the Crimean Khanate (According to Religious Court Records) AU - Kavak, Nuri PY - 2019 DA - August JF - Journal of International Eastern European Studies PB - Yücel ÖZTÜRK WT - DergiPark SN - 2687-3346 SP - 59 EP - 72 VL - 1 IS - 1 LA - en AB - Before theCrimean Khanate was established, the world-famous slave markets of the LatinKingdoms, the Byzantine Empire and the Russians had long been on the Black Seacoast and north of the Black Sea. In other words, when the Crimean Khanatebecame an important state in the mentioned geography, it found the slavemarkets and the economic benefits that they created. The high return of theslave trade has become increasingly attractive. In particular, the hardship ofthe Ottoman Empire in the procurement of slaves by the end of the raidingactivities encouraged the Crimean Tatars. In the following period, they becameone of the important actors of the slave market.It is seen thatin the tereke records in the Crimean Khanate Sharia Records and some records ofhüccet are frequently mentioned from slaves and concubines. The need and use ofslave labor, the commercial relations created by the exchange as a commercialcommodity, and the record of the disputes and the ways and methods of emancipationshow the extent of the matter. Our study aims to illuminate the commercialsales prices and the position of the slaves in the Crimean Khanate.  KW - Crimean Khanate KW - Ottoman Empire KW - Crimean Peninsula KW - Slave CR - A. Archive Resources Bahçesaray Sharia Registry, 20-34-37-38-51-53 and 72th volumes. Karasu Sharia Registry, 25-33-47 and 65th volumes. CR - B. Other Resources Aydın, Mehmet Akif-Muhammed Hamidullah, Köle, XXVI, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, Ankara 2002. Çiçek, Kemal, Saydam, Abdullah, Kıbrıstan Kafkasyaya Osmanlı Dünyasında Siyaset, Adalet ve Raiyyet, Trabzon, Derya Kitapevi, 1998. Evliya Çelebi b. Derviş MehmedZılli, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi, Haz. Yücel Dalı, Seyit Ali Kahraman, Robert Dankoff, VII, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul 2003. Fisher, Alan, TheCrimeanTatars, Hoover Institution Press, California 1978. İnalcık, Halil, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi, Translate: Halil Berktay, I, İstanbul 2001. Sroeçkovskiy, V. E., Muhammed Geray Han ve Vasalları “Kırım Tarihi”, Translate:, Kemal Ortaylı, Su Yayınları, İstanbul 1979. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jiees/issue//572913 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/728750 ER -