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Volga trade route
The Volga trade route was a network of river and portage routes linking Scandinavia and the Baltic with the Caspian Sea and the Islamic world via the Volga River in the early medieval period. Furs, slaves and other goods moved south, while silver dirhams flowed north. The Khazar Khaganate taxed this commerce, and the Khazars helped spread dirhams into northern Europe.
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