Kara Bazaar

Kara Bazaar lay near the western shore of the Caspian, amid the low country north of the Terek delta. Its name, meaning Black Market, belonged to a trading place on the routes between the northern Caucasus and the steppe. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it was also known as a market for enslaved people, part of a trade that linked the Caucasus with buyers beyond the mountains and across the sea.