Slavs are basically the Rednecks of Europe. Nowadays, many Slavic/Baltic countries are doing well economically after they embraced Capitalism.
West Euro nationalists are jealous of rich & homogenous East European countries.
Look up Slovenia & others. Super high HDI and income levels etc.
Don't bring me those cope points the modern slave decent north Africans make.The Moors who acquired them were not black but rather Maghrebi or Andalusi. In contrast to Black slaves, Saqaliba/Slavic slaves had the potential to attain elevated positions within Andalusi society (At some point some Taifas were literally ruled by them).
Don't bring me those cope points the modern slave decent north Africans make.
"Moor" comes from the Greek word mauros (plural mauroi), meaning "black" or "very dark," which in Latin became Mauro (plural Mauri).
Andalusi's conquerors were the initial black berbers who converted to Islam, as well as the original black arabs throughout the rashidun and ummayd caliphates.
The songs of the Franks made like song of Roland describe the blackness of the Muslims they fought, even the paintings and statues and descriptions.
SONG OF ROLAND
When Rollant sees those misbegotten men,
Who are more black than ink is on the pen
With no part white, only their teeth except,
Then says that count: “I know now very well
That here to die we’re bound, as I can tell.
Strike on, the Franks! For so I recommend.”
Says Oliver: “Who holds back, is condemned!”
Upon those words, the Franks to strike again.
After the Muslims where pushed out after 800 years from Europe. The word Blackamoor was used aswell to refer to the Muslims.
Don't bring me those cope points the modern slave decent north Africans make.
"Moor" comes from the Greek word mauros (plural mauroi), meaning "black" or "very dark," which in Latin became Mauro (plural Mauri).
Andalusi's conquerors were the initial black berbers who converted to Islam, as well as the original black arabs throughout the rashidun and ummayd caliphates.
The songs of the Franks made like song of Roland describe the blackness of the Muslims they fought, even the paintings and statues and descriptions.
SONG OF ROLAND
When Rollant sees those misbegotten men,
Who are more black than ink is on the pen
With no part white, only their teeth except,
Then says that count: “I know now very well
That here to die we’re bound, as I can tell.
Strike on, the Franks! For so I recommend.”
Says Oliver: “Who holds back, is condemned!”
Upon those words, the Franks to strike again.
After the Muslims where pushed out after 800 years from Europe. The word Blackamoor was used aswell to refer to the Muslims.
Frank M. Snowden Jr., Bernal's "Blacks" and the afrocentrists,in: Black athena revisited, The university of North Carolina Press, 1996, p. 114Ethiopians differed from other dark-skinned peoples (e.g., Egyptians, Moors, and Indians) not only in that they were the blackest of all populations known to Greeks and Romans but also in that their hair was the woolliest or most tightly curled. Herodotus clearly located Ethiopians in the Nile Valley to the south of Egypt (e.g. 2.28-30) and in northwestern Africa to the south of the Libyans (4.197) and described some of the former as the most wolly-haired of all mankind (7.70).
Ethiopian", the word of crucial import as to the full significance of the ethnic identification of peoples darker than greeks and romans, was applied, with a few poetical exceptions, neither to egyptians nor to inhabitants of northwestern Africa, such as Carthaginians, Numidians, or Moors. In other words, all Ethiopians were black or dark, but with hair, noses, and lips differing from these features in other peoples described as black or dark. And Afri (africans) generally referred to the lighter-skinned populations of countries west of Egypt along the northern coast of Africa - peoples whose physical characteristics Greeks and Romans distinguished from those of the dark-skinned inhabitants of the interior of northwestern Africa.
By then, the idea of Moors had spread across Western Europe. “Moor” came to mean anyone who was Muslim or had dark skin; occasionally, Europeans would distinguish between “blackamoors” and “white Moors.”
"Moor" and "blackamoor" are two english words that were highly influenced by Iberian and Italian designations of Northern African peoples. Mouro (portuguese) and moro (Castilian, Italian) derived from the Latin maurus, an inhabitant of Mauretania, the Roman designation for the region of Maghreb. The lengthy duration of the iberian reconquista, the reconquest of Muslim territories by local Christian Iberia and northern Europe contributed to the dissemination of the word in the Middle Ages, where "Moor" remained a popular descriptor for medieval Berber and Arab Muslim conquerors of the Iberian peninsula and Sicily. The accounts of the late medieval Portuguese travellers, explorers, and merchants often used "Moor" for Muslim, although distinctions remained: despite such terms as "Arabian Moors" or "Turkish Moors", both were usually described as mouros brancos ("white moors"), while Berber and sub-saharan muslims were frequently distinguished between mouros da terra (Portuguese for "moors from the land") or mouros negros (black moors). [...] This complex relation between ethnicity, geography and religion informed the evolution of "blackamoor", often used alongside region-inflected words like "Niger" or "Ethiop". English grammars and dictionaries of the time made similar associations: "a black more, or a man of Ethiope"; The Negro[sic], which we call the Black-mores.
The Almoravids were the first ruling dynasty in Morocco to use a large number of black slaves in the army during the Islamic era, in the eleventh century. Many succeeding dynasties would also rely on black soldiers to maintain their power. Archival sources indicate the use of blacks in the
armies of the Moroccan authority, and in many cases, entire garrisons consisted solely of black soldiers. During the Almoravid period, ruler Yusuf Ibn Tashfin purchased many black slaves in order to increase his personal power. Ibn ‘Idhari wrote:
"In this year [1071–1072] the might of the emir Yusuf increased. He bought a body of black slaves and sent [them] to al-Andalus, where there was bought for him a body of a‘laj [white slaves]. He gave them all mounts and finally he had a total, paid for with his own money, of 240 cavaliers. Of the slaves, also bought with his own money, he had about 2,000 and mounted them all. He made himself more difficult of access and his authority waxed mighty."
It could be that Yusuf Ibn Tashfin’s preference for black slaves was based on their non-tribal affiliation, which meant their loyalty could be most trusted. The black bodyguards became a tradition in the Moroccan regime and formed an elite corps whose task was to protect and enforce the power of the sultan.
In al-Andalus, it was towards the end of the 8th century that militias composed of black slaves ('abid) emerged within the Hispano-Umayyad military apparatus, alongside European mercenary groups (mamalik or 'aqaliba). Al-Hakam I (796-822), the first to establish a permanent and paid army, "bought new slaves for his personal militia from outside Spain wherever he could find them, thus forming a robust bodyguard. He entrusted its command to the leader of the Christian community of Cordoba, Rabi‘, son of Teodulfo." This numerous and well-equipped black guard comprised various units during the investiture ceremony (on October 15, 961) of al-Nasir's son, al-Hakam II (961-976): "the al-'abid al-fu?ul, fully armed; the raggalat al-'abid, clad in armor and white mantlets, adorned with sparkling helmets, wielding shields and shining weapons; and the fursan al-'abid" (Lévi-Provençal 1932: 58; Pérès 1953: 261). One of his successors, Al-Man?ur (978-1002), further increased the ranks by recruiting Sudanese known for their endurance as walkers, forming a corps of messengers who accompanied him in all his expeditions. Finally, in 1086, during the famous "Friday of Zallaqa [Sagrajas]," the black guard - nearly four thousand men according to Ibn Khallikan - played a decisive role in the Muslim success over the Christians. A young black infantryman (gulam aswad), specifically, wounded Alphonse VI in the thigh, forcing him to leave the battlefield (Pérès 1953: 262; Lagardère 1990: 212, 222).
The cope is just insane lol. usual white meat riding 68iq Somali.You clearly don't really know much about what you're talking about, you're simply repeating the typical we wuz mantra because of your inferiority complex (fantasizing about black men enslaving white people ...pathetic).
I don't think I have to remind you that North Africans are as a whole much darker than europeans hence why they were often described as such but still they were separated from Blacks/sub-saharans/aethiopians :
Frank M. Snowden Jr., Bernal's "Blacks" and the afrocentrists,in: Black athena revisited, The university of North Carolina Press, 1996, p. 114
Frank M. Snowden Jr., Bernal's "Blacks" and the afrocentrists,in: Black athena revisited, The university of North Carolina Press, 1996, p. 114
The distinction was still made during the medieval era even though "Moro" was also used to designate any muslim or dark skin person :
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Moors, facts and information
The Moors influenced art and literature, but their history is confusing. For good reason.www.nationalgeographic.com
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1t8q92s.7?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=berbers&searchUri=/action/doBasicSearch?Query=berbers&so=new&efqs=eyJjdHkiOltdLCJkaXNjIjpbImFHbHpkRzl5ZVMxa2FYTmphWEJzYVc1bCJdfQ%3D%3D&ab_segments=0/basic_search_gsv2/control&refreqid=fastly-default:c4f8ab075cbbdb1fc85c634a3c8644ee&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents )
Your song of Roland simply reflects the use of black soldiers by muslim powers in the iberian peninsula :
Chouki El Hamel, Black Morocco a history of slavery, race and Islam, pp. 121-122
Migrations forcées des africains subsahariens : Maghreb, Al-Andalus...
L’institution esclavagiste, d’une longévité exceptionnelle, s’inscrit dans un continuum : la traite d’esclaves africains vers les régions méditerranéennes fut pratiquée, par la vallée du Nil et la ...journals.openedition.org