Subscriber Essay: On the Janissaries
This week’s question is a good one that I’ll post here in full:
Inspired by an aside in this weekend’s essay ‘Causes of the Safavid Decline’, can you explain how the Janissaries became such a powerful force in Ottoman politics? From a novice perspective it’s strange that Christian slaves eventually became such a powerful force within the empire. I unders…
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