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he faintest stirrings would unloose a whirling of janissaries and spahis and later on, and perhaps the worst, bashi-bazouks. They adorned the towns with avenues of gibbets, the burnt villages with pyramids of heads and the roadsides with impaled
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The bashi-bazouks were notorious for being violently brutal and undisciplined, thus giving the term its second, colloquial meaning of "undisciplined bandit" in many languages. A notable example of this use is in the comic series
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The term "bashibozouk" has also been used for a mounted force, existing in peacetime in various provinces of the Ottoman Empire, which performed the duties of
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in Ottoman Macedonia, these troops burned 119 villages and destroyed 8400 houses, and over 50,000 Bulgarian refugees had to flee into the mountains.
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Although the Ottoman armies always contained irregular troops such as mercenaries as well as regular soldiers, the strain on the Ottoman
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of two Bulgarian women in a church by one African-looking and two Turkish-looking bashi-bazouks, during the
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Soldiers of subject, protectorate, or allied states (the most important being the
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Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century: Setting the Precedent
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Bashi-bazouks, who usually did not receive regular salaries and lived off loot
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An Albanian bashi-bazouk painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme in the 1860s.
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as bashi-bazouks, but recruits came from all ethnic groups of the
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An African bashi-bazouk, painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1860s.
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lit. armed, man-at-arms), but other kinds were also present
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Military units and formations of the Ottoman Empire
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E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936
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(1993). 852: 726: 664: 609:Two captured bashi-bazouks, painted by 14: 1850: 823:Alexis Heraclides; Ada Dialla (2015). 797: 741: 319:The Sultan's household troops, called 931: 912:Montgomery, Viscount Bernard (1968). 877:The Remininiscences of a Bashi-bazouk 777:. Simon and Schuster. pp. 168–. 293: 241: 27:Irregular soldier of the Ottoman army 523: 229: 802:. 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Index

Bashi-bozuk
Bashi-bazouk (disambiguation)

Jean-Léon Gérôme
Turkish
Istanbul
Ottoman Empire
Balkans
Eastern Europe
Ottoman Empire
Khedivate of Egypt
Crimean Khanate
Russian Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
British Empire
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Greece
Serbia
Romania
Bulgaria


Jean-Léon Gérôme
Ottoman Turkish
[baʃɯboˈzuk]
irregular
Ottoman army
Albanians
Circassians
Ottoman Empire

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