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Tableau général de l'Empire othoman. Tome 3
par M. de Mouradgea d'Ohsson, c.1787
204. HARBADJI.
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Sixty Harbecis were another special janissary contingent, also assigned to executions. On campaign, forty of them guarded the tent of the Grand Vezir, and twenty guarded that of the Janissary Ağa. They took their name from the long halberd (harbe) that they carried; their tiger skin mantles made them a favorite of artists.