Note 87 — Chapter II · THE OTTOMAN RULING INSTITUTION: AS A SLAVE-FAMILY
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20,000 Ajem-oghlans, 12,000 to 14,000 Janissaries, 10,000 of the auxiliary corps, grooms, etc., 40,000 Spahis of the Porte (including the 12,000 members of the four corps and the followers they were obliged to bring), 2000 pages and high officials. Suleiman took with him on his last campaign 48,316 men under pay (Hammer, Staatsverwaltung, 181). Morosini, 259, says that in 1585 the sultan had under pay 80,000 men. This is exclusive of about one-half of the Ajem-oghlans.