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The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent

Note 382 — Chapter IV · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS AN ARMY

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Postel, i. 126; see also Dandolo, 166. Georgevitz, 45, says that he accompanied the Turkish army on an expedition against Persia (probably 1533 to 1536): “I saw a Spahi decapitated together with his horse and servant, because the horse, having been left loose, entered some one’s field.”

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