Editing Evliya Çelebi (section)

==== Crimean Khanate ====
Evliya Çelebi remarked on the impact of [[Cossack]] raids from [[Azak]] upon the territories of the [[Crimean Khanate]], destroying trade routes and severely depopulating the regions. By the time of Çelebi's arrival, many of the towns visited were affected by the Cossacks, and the only place in [[Crimea]] he reported as safe was the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] fortress at [[Arabat Spit|Arabat]].<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Between Russians, Ottomans and Turks: Crimea and Crimean Tatars|author=Fisher, A.|date=1998|publisher=Isis Press|isbn=9789754281262|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-PFoAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2014-10-27}}</ref>

Çelebi wrote of the [[Slavery in the Ottoman Empire|slave trade]] in the Crimea:{{Blockquote|A man who had not seen this market, had not seen anything in this world. A mother is severed from her son and daughter there, a son—from his father and brother, and they are sold amongst lamentations, cries of help, weeping and sorrow.<ref>{{cite web |author=Mikhail Kizilov |author-link= Mikhail Kizilov |title=Slave Trade in the Early Modern Crimea From the Perspective of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources |url=https://www.academia.edu/2971600 |work=Oxford University|year= 2007 |volume= 11 |issue= 1–2 |page=24}}</ref>}}

Çelebi estimated that there were about 400,000 slaves in the Crimea but only 187,000 free Muslims.<ref>Brian L. Davies (2014). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=i5-CAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe]''. pp. 15–26. Routledge.</ref>