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The Story of Turkey: From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire to Today — Fexingo History
The Ottoman Devshirme: A System of Elite Slave Administrators
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This episode explores the devshirme system, the Ottoman practice of recruiting Christian boys from the Balkans for state service. Lucas and Luna discuss how the system worked from the levy to the palace school, the rise of grand viziers like Sokollu...
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