ROTHENBURG OB DER TAUBER, Germany — Cloaked in black and brandishing a deadly medieval weapon, Hans-Georg Baumgartner strides purposefully into Market Square at dusk.

Medieval slave trade routes in Eastern Europe extended from Finland and the Baltic Countries to Central Asia. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 04 ...

Little is known about trade routes around the Mediterranean island in the 900s, the researchers said. There have been several shipwrecks discovered from the era in southern France.

This jibes chronologically with the onset of the Black Death; and plague could have continued traversing this route with the fur traders for centuries. PNAS , 2018. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812865115 ...

Baumgartner's Watchman tour has helped make Rothenburg - Germany's best-preserved walled town and the jewel of the medieval trade route known as the Romantic Road - one of the country's most ...

The routes of slave trade in Eastern Europe in the medieval and pre-modern period extended all the way to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia. A recent study completed at the University of Eastern ...