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~from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Europe

Throughout the 16th to 19th centuries, the Barbary States sent Barbary pirates to raid parts of Western Europe in order to capture Christian slaves to sell at slave markets in the Arab World throughout the Renaissance period.[11][12] According to Robert Davis, from the 16th to 19th century, pirates captured 1 million to 1.25 million Europeans as slaves. These slaves were captured mainly from the crews of captured vessels[13] and from coastal villages in Spain and Portugal, and from farther places like Italy, France or England, the Netherlands, Ireland and even Iceland.[11]