Slavery in Hungary
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Slavery in Hungary existed in different forms in Hungary until the late early modern age. Slavery is known from what later became Hungary from the slavery in the Roman Province of Pannonia. In the middle ages the Hungarian peasantry were enslaved under the Magyar landlords and called servi. The Magyars also participated as suppliers of Slavic war captives to the Black Sea slave trade. During the 13th century, chattel slavery was phased out in Hungary and transformed in to serfdom.
After the Ottoman conquest and during the era of Ottoman Hungary, chattel slavery was again legal in Hungary. Hungary was subjected to slave raids and many Hungarians were trafficked to the Crimean slave trade in the Black Sea and slavery in the Ottoman Empire. During Austrian rule, chattel slavery were no longer legal in Hungary.