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Tableau général de l'Empire othoman. Tome 3
par M. de Mouradgea d'Ohsson, c.1787
211. POMPIER.
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Plate 211 illustrates what were known in Turkish as the Tulumbacıs, the fire brigade of three hundred men. “Their service is only too necessary in a city where fires are so frequent” (3, 396). They formed another of the specialized Janissary contingents, and the other military services also had their fire companies