The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923Longman, 1997 - 406 pages This is an introductory survey of Ottoman history from earliest times to the end of the Empire, written for both students and non-specialists. Although it offers a broad account of events, it is not primarily a political narrative of the Ottoman territories; rather, it investigates the world of the Ottoman Turks themselves, exploring their political, social and economic systems, and examining the lives and customs of ordinary people, as well as of the ruling classes. |
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Page 48
... soldiers were trained in Ottoman ways and melded into units that were dependent solely on the sultan and part of no old Turkish organization . Bayezit augmented the slave army with children taken from Christian villages , raised by the ...
... soldiers were trained in Ottoman ways and melded into units that were dependent solely on the sultan and part of no old Turkish organization . Bayezit augmented the slave army with children taken from Christian villages , raised by the ...
Page 55
... soldiers , but the Ottoman state slave system formally began under Murat I. Tradition and law gave the sultan one - fifth of all booty taken by his troops . Murat took much of his one - fifth in the form of soldiers captured in battle ...
... soldiers , but the Ottoman state slave system formally began under Murat I. Tradition and law gave the sultan one - fifth of all booty taken by his troops . Murat took much of his one - fifth in the form of soldiers captured in battle ...
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... soldiers . Large cavalry units were increasingly superfluous . As a result , the sipahi cavalry gradually dis- appeared . By the middle of the century , fewer than 10,000 remained . The Ottomans took two steps to modernize their army ...
... soldiers . Large cavalry units were increasingly superfluous . As a result , the sipahi cavalry gradually dis- appeared . By the middle of the century , fewer than 10,000 remained . The Ottomans took two steps to modernize their army ...
Contents
Origins of the Turks to 1281 | 1 |
The First Ottomans 12811446 | 33 |
The Ottoman Classical Age 14461566 | 65 |
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