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The Janissaries were first created by the Ottoman Sultans in the late 14th century and were employed as household troops. Janissaries began as an elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child slavery, by which young Christian boys, notably Serbs, Albanians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, and Romanians were taken from the Balkans, circumcised, converted to Islam, and incorporated into ...
The fall of Baghdad marked the end of the five hundred-year-old Abbasid Caliphate—although a member of the dynasty eventually made it to Cairo, where the Mamluks installed him as Al-Mustansir II, he and his descendants were puppets of the Mamluk state and never gained much recognition in the wider Muslim world; they would later be usurped by ...
Iranian armies invaded the two territories in March 1614, and the two allied kings subsequently sought refuge in the Ottoman vassal Imeretia. [1] Abbas, as reported by the Safavid court historian Iskander Beg Munshi, was infuriated by what was perceived as the defection of two of his most trusted subjects and gholams. [7]
1322 Golden Empire Tower (formerly known as 1322 Roxas Boulevard) is a 57-storey residential skyscraper in Manila, Philippines. It is owned by Moldex Land, Inc., part ...
List of the main battles in the history of the Ottoman Empire are shown below. The life span of the empire was more than six centuries, and the maximum territorial extent, at the zenith of its power in the second half of the 16th century, stretched from central Europe to the Persian Gulf and from the Caspian Sea to North Africa.
Altair: A Record of Battles (Japanese: 将国のアルタイル, Hepburn: Shōkoku no Arutairu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kotono Kato [].It tells the story of Tuğril Mahmut, a young military officer and his exploits to protect his country from invasion by a neighboring empire.
The fall of Constantinople and of the Byzantine Empire was a watershed of the Late Middle Ages, marking the effective end of the Roman Empire, a state which began in roughly 27 BC and had lasted nearly 1500 years. For many modern historians, the fall of Constantinople marks the end of the medieval period and the beginning of the early modern ...
Tuğril "Golden Eagle" Mahmut Pasha (犬鷲の （ トゥグリル ） マフムート 将軍 （ パシャ ）, Tuguriru Mafumūto Pasha) Voiced by: Ayumu Murase [1] A 19-year-old (17 at the start of the series), Mahmut is the youngest member of the Divan and youngest to achieve the rank of Pasha. Mahmut hails from the Tuğril tribe, a village ...