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Detaylı Tarama

Title

Child from devşirme in the palace service.

Alternative Title

Fanciulo di Tributo creato nel Serraglio

Date

1580

Bibliographic Citation

NICOLAY, Nicolas de. Le Navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Turchia Novamente tradotto di Francese in Italiano da Francesco Flori da Lilla, Aritmetico. Con sessantasette figure naturali, si d’ huomini come di donne, secondo la varietà delle nationi…, Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1580.

Table Of Contents

74

Area/Place

Turkey

Subject

Human types

Description

Devşirme (gr. paidomazoma) was the practice by which the Ottomam empire took slave boys from Christian families. Those children were subsequently converted into Islam, and the primary objective was selecting and training the ablest children for the military or civil service of the Empire.

Collection

Hellenic Library - Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

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