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

Note 296 — Chapter IV · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS AN ARMY

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Nicolay, 89, was perhaps the first to point out the likeness of the Janissaries to the Roman Pretorian Guard, and to see in them a great danger to the Ottoman Empire.

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