Note 365 — Chapter IV · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS AN ARMY
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After the year 1552: Trevisano, 124. The number of the Beylerbeys was greatly increased in the last third of the sixteenth century. Knolles, 986-988, mentions five in Europe, 30 in Asia, and 4 in Africa, besides the Beylerbey of the Sea, whose office was created by Suleiman, but who is not mentioned above as having no part in the army.