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TIL from the 16th to 19th centuries the Ottoman Empire enslaved over 1 million Europeans from ship and coastal raids of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, France, England, and the Netherlands. Some slaves were even captured by European pirates who then sold them to the Ottomans.

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