May 18, 2018 · JANISSARIES Military corps in the Ottoman Empire 's army from the late fourteenth century to 1826. The term janissary is the anglicized form of the Turkish yeni çeri …

May 18, 2018 · Selim III >Selim III (1761-1808), the twenty-eighth Ottoman sultan, was a >late-18th-century reformer who sought to end the stagnation and decay >weakening the empire. …

The Janissaries Around the time he conquered Bulgaria in 1388, the Ottoman sultan Murad established a force similar to the Mamluks, an elite military group called the Janissaries (JAN …

Empire, OttomanThe Ottoman Empire (1299–1923) was a Turkish-Muslim state that existed for more than six hundred years. It was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in history, …

They remained politically important until Mahmud II revoked their fiefs in 1828, two years after he crushed the Janissaries with modern artillery in his effort to build a modern army. In the French …

May 23, 2018 · The attackers were wiped out, and Janissaries throughout the empire were destroyed or dispersed. Unfortunately, before Mahmud could fully train their replacements and …

The Janissaries, a powerful military corps, staged an uprising against the young sultan, and Vizier Halil pleaded with Murad to return to power. Once convinced of the gravity of the situation, …

Devshirme (young Christian conscripts to Islam): see JANISSARIES. Source for information on Devshirme: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions dictionary.

TIMAR Land rights earned in exchange for service to the Ottoman state. The timar system began under Murad I (1359 – 1389), who granted land rights as payment to his military officers. In the …

VAKA-I HAYRIYE Turkish for "the beneficial event"; the end of the janis-sary corps in 1826. The term vaka-i hayriye has been used by Turkish historians to describe the government-ordered …