Note 312 — Chapter IV · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS AN ARMY
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Hammer, Staatsverwaltung, 194; Ricaut, 365 (mentions 162 odalar); Djevad Bey, i. 28. In Chalcocondyles’s time (1465), 97, the strength of each oda seems to have been of 50 men. In Suleiman’s time it was less than 100. Later it became much larger.