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Devshirme (Ottoman Turkish: دوشیرمه, romanized: devşirme, lit. 'collecting',
usually translated as "child levy" or "blood tax") was the
Ottoman practice...
- Badheri) was an
Ottoman military officer from Albania. A
conscript of the
Devshirme child soldier system, he
became a Pasha.
Ballaban Badera was said to be...
- kapıkulu were professional,
standing troops,
mostly drawn through the
devshirme system. They
formed the
backbone of the
military of the
Ottoman Empire...
- the
Ottoman Sultan's
household troops,
recruited through the
process of
devshirme. For all
practical purposes,
Janissaries belonged to the Sultan, carrying...
- people, and as such they were
subjected to
heavy taxes among others by the
Devshirme system that
allowed the
Sultan to
collect a
requisite percentage of Christian...
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- do****ents. The
island was also a
place of
refuge for the
runaways of the
Devshirme System. For
example in 1567, a
group of
runaways was
protected and hidden...
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- po****tion
experienced Islamization. Many
Serbs were
recruited during the
devshirme system, a form of slavery, in
which boys from
Balkan Christian families...
- the
communities settled in
Rumelia or the Balkans, a
process known as
Devshirme (Devşirme).
Though the
sultan was the
supreme monarch, the sultan's political...