- A bashi-
bazouk (Ottoman Turkish: باشی بوزوق başıbozuk, IPA: [baʃɯboˈzuk], lit. 'one
whose head is turned,
damaged head, crazy-head',
roughly "leaderless"...
- Bashi-
Bazouk (possibly
titled Bachi-Bouzouk nègre) is a
painting by
French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Done in oil on canvas, the
painting depicts a Bashi-bazouk...
- bashi-
bazouk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bashi-
bazouk was an
irregular soldier of the
Ottoman army. Bashi-
bazouk may also
refer to: Bashi-
Bazouk (Jean-Léon...
- A
Resting Bashi-
Bazouk Serbian: Одмор башибозука
Artist Paja Jovanović Year 1887–1888
Medium Oil on
panel Dimensions 41 cm × 32.5 cm (16 in × 12.8 in)...
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civilians by
regular Ottoman army and Circ****ian
paramilitaries (bashi-
bazouk) on 30 July–3 August [O.S. 18–22 July] 1877 and to the
capture and imprisonment...
-
often to the
detriment of
local Ottoman interests. The
Ottoman bashi-
bazouks suppressed the
Bulgarian uprising of 1876, m****acring up to 100,000 people...
- sent a
paramilitary detachment of some 5,000
irregular soldiers (bashi-
bazouk), led by
Ahmet Aga from
Barutin which surrounded the town.
After the first...
- duties.
Notable examples of
regulars relying on
irregulars include Bashi-
bazouk units in the
Ottoman Empire,
auxiliary cohorts of
Germanic peoples in the...
-
April to May 1876. The
rebellion was
suppressed by
irregular Ottoman bashi-
bazouk units that
engaged in
indiscriminate slaughter of both
rebels and non-combatants...
- Circ****ian bashi-
bazouk in the
course of July 1877, as part of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). The town was
initially surrounded by a bashi-
bazouk unit led...
