Note 20 — THE MOSQUE OF SULTAN ACHMET.

The attempt of the Sultan Selim to organize a regular army had nearly failed, from the fact of his having named the troops Nizam Djedid, or the New Regulation, which the present Sultan changed to Nizam Attick, or the Old Regulation, in order to appease the popular outcry against innovation; the first murmur being silenced by a declaration that the force then forming was a revival of that instituted by Solyman I., an assurance which at once reconciled the people to the change.