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Remarks on Captives and Warriors in an Old Bulgarian Collection of Miracle Stories

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2023
When scholars’ efforts are focused on the ethnic, religious and social diversity in certain parts of the Byzantine commonwealth during the middle ages, the hagiographic literature stands out as a key primary source.
Yanko M. Hristov, Dafina Kostadinova
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“[I]n Search of their Relations, To Set at Liberty as Many as They Had the Means”

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2010
The practice of ransoming, which upon payment of a fee or prisoner exchange, restored captives to freedom and prevented their enslavement, was a universal institution.
Olatunji Ojo
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CAPTIVE AS AN INSURANCE FORMULA FOR RISK MANAGEMENT: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

open access: yesВісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія Економіка, 2017
This article introduces subject of an insurance captive entity, with focus on how it could be used as insurance formula for risk management. Captive might be the most appropriate insurance formula for risk management.
R. Holly, E. Greszta
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Periodicals оn the Fate of Russian Captives During the First World War

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2014
The materials of periodicals represent an important source for studying public opinion and the executive policy regarding the fate of Russian captives. The analysis of the periodicals proves that despite the patriotic fervor that swept the press during ...
Nazarova Tatyana
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Forgotten Victims. Remarks on Hittite Behavior towards Prisoners in the Empire’s Northern Central Frontier Zone

open access: yesGerión, 2014
During the second half of the II millennium B.C., the military expansion developed by the Hittites involved the taking of captives, both warriors and civil population.
Juan Manuel González Salazar
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The Issue of Georgian Captives in the Crimea in the 18th Century / The Issue of Georgian Captives in the Crimea in the 18th Century

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2019
Dagestani mountaineers were engaged in kidnapping people from eastern Georgia throughout the 16th — 18th сenturies. Part of the population kidnapped by the Dagestani mountaineers was dispatched to Istanbul by Turk merchants and part was transported to ...
Apolon Tabuashvili
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Vente et rançonnement du butin humain des armées romaines à l’époque des conquêtes (264 av. J.-C. – 117 ap. J.-C.)

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2014
At the height of Roman imperialism, military victories brought in several millions of captives. Available figures show an increasing number of prisoners during the second half of the third century B.C. and until the first century B.C.
Jean-Christophe Robert
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El poder de los cautivos: relaciones sociales entre abipones e hispanocriollos en las fronteras del Chaco austral (siglo XVIII)

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2011
This paper deals with the problem of captives among the Abipones groups of Chaco during the 18th century. For the above-mentioned groups the practice of captive-taking was complex because it involved political, social, economic and symbolic aspects ...
Carina P. Lucaioli
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Prisoners of War in Early Medieval Bulgaria (Preliminary Remarks)

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2015
The work is concentrated on the problem of war prisoners in the chronological period of the existance of the so-called First Bulgarian state. The analysis is based predominantly on various Byzantine and selected Latin and Bulgarian sources from the epoch.
Yanko M. Hristov
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The early medieval village of Morawy: a grave field from the 11th century

open access: yesSlavia Antiqua, 2018
This article deals with the issues of an 11th century grave field in Morawy village in Kuyavia. In the first Piast times, the area was an integral part of the dynasty’s dominion.
Marcin Danielewski
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