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noun - a loyal supporter
noun - a Turkish soldier
JANISSARIES - The Janissaries (Ottoman Turkish: yeñiçeri [jenitei], meaning "new soldier") were elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household ...
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Supporters of New Year's Day saints and one born on All Fools' Day? |
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Mar 8 2013 The Telegraph - Toughie |
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The Janissaries (Ottoman Turkish: yeñiçeri [jenitei], meaning "new soldier") were elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops, bodyguards and the first modern standing army in Europe. The corps was most likely established during the reign of Murad I (136289).They began as an elite corps of slaves made up of kidnapped young Christian boys who were forcefully converted to Islam, and became famed for internal cohesion cemented by strict discipline and order. Unlike typical slaves, they were paid regular salaries. Forbidden to marry or engage in trade, their complete loyalty to the Sultan was expected. By the seventeenth century, due to a dramatic increase in the size of the Ottoman standing army, the corps' initially strict recruitment policy was relaxed. Civilians bought their way into it in order to benefit from the improved socioeconomic status it conferred upon them. Consequently, the corps gradually lost its military character, undergoing a process that ha |