Slavery in Serbia
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Slavery in Serbia refer to the history of slavery in the area that was later to form the nation of Serbia.
In Ancient Serbia, the institution of slavery in the area was a part of the history of slavery in the Roman Empire. During the early middle ages, Serbia was subjected to the laws of the Byzantine Empire. During the later part of the middle ages, Serbia was independent and regulated slavery by its own laws.
During the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans, Serbia became a religious and political border zone between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire, and as a consequence the Serbs was termed as infidels kafir of Dar al-Harb and vulnerable to Ottoman slave raids and slave trading. During the Ottoman era, slavery was legal in accordance to Islamic law. As a non-Muslim province, Serbia was also subjected to the blood tax of tributary slaves to the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman era in Serbia ended in 1804, after which Ottoman law was no longer applicable.