Ottoman Institutions, Devshirme: 1250 to 1920: Middle East

Devshirme, or “collection,” was the system of periodic levies of Christian boys by the Ottomans to serve in the Janissary Corps or as administrators and governors in the imperial palace and in the provinces of the empire. This term initially referred ...

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