A Janizary

from The present state of the Ottoman Empire by Sir Paul Rycaut


Of the Janizaries. The next main sinew of the Ottoman power is the order of Janizaries, which is as much as to say, the new Militia; and yet their antiquity may be deduced from Ottoman the first king of the Turks ...

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