1 gen 1797 anni - "In Constantinople there is a market for slaves
of both sexes, and the Jews are the principal
merchants, who bring them to be sold: there
are great numbers of girls, brought from
Hungary, Greece, Candia, Circassia, Mingrelia,
and Georgia, for the Turks, who buy them for
their seraglios (harems)."
-Elements of Geography and of Natural and
Civil History By John Walker