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 Translation for 'janissary' from English to Danish
NOUN   a janissary | janissaries
hist.mil.
janissary
janitshar {fk}
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Translation for 'janissary' from English to Danish

janissary
janitshar {fk}hist.mil.
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Usage Examples English
  • It was used by the Ottoman sultans to receive the salute of processing janissary as well as a pleasure locale.
  • Thereafter, a janissary unit was stationed inside the fortress, alongside the Moldavian troops.
  • Another 15th-century literary work with Skanderbeg as one of the main characters was "Memoirs of a Janissary" (...) written in the period of 1490–97 by Konstantin Mihailović, a Serb who was a janissary in the Ottoman Army.
  • A form of forced conversion became institutionalized during the Ottoman Empire in the practice of devşirme, From the mid to late 14th, through early 18th centuries, the devşirme–janissary system enslaved an estimated 500,000 to one million non-Muslim adolescent males.
  • Michael and Mushalski resolve to attack the Turkish tunnel being dug through the rock and the mission is successful, except for the loss of Mushalski, the brave bowman, but he returns the next day dressed as a janissary.

  • The music belongs to the Turkish-influenced fashion of the period and features janissary music, represented by piccolo, drums, and cymbals.
  • At the end of November 1797 obor-knezes Aleksa Nenadović, Ilija Birčanin and Nikola Grbović from Valjevo brought their forces to Belgrade and forced the besieging janissary forces to retreat to Smederevo.
  • In the 19th century, with the abolition of the janissary corps and the introduction of the new model regular army (nizamı cedid), the composition of the garrison at Amberlihisar changed.
  • He was born in Eregli in 1899. It is said that he is the descendant of a janissary lord who escaped from Istanbul during the reign of Mahmud II and settled in the Ortaca village of Ereğli.
  • His great grandfather Topuzoglou (also pronounced as 'Tabuzoglu' which in Turkish means 'Son of Cannon' and indicates linear descent from janissary) who came with Muhammad Ali of Egypt and for his success against British invasion in Rosetta was appointed by him with governorship of Alexandria.

  • The mosque got its name from the dey of Tunis Hadj Mohamed Laz, a janissary from Lazistan.
  • ... 1801–1804) was an Ottoman janissary leader who defected and along with three other janissary leaders took control over the Sanjak of Smederevo in 1801.
  • Arslan was the son or grandson of Matarci Ali, a janissary of obscure origins who governed Latakia and died there in 1666.
  • 3. Manolis Alexis, was killed by a Turk who claimed the large bounty placed upon his head by the Turkish authorities after the Alexises had killed janissary Tsoulis.
  • The renegade janissary leaders were called "dahije", from Ottoman Turkish "dayı", meaning "uncle".

  • According to the historian Cemal Kafadar, one of the main reasons for the decline of the devshirme system was that the size of the janissary corps had to be expanded to compensate for the decline in the importance of the sipahi cavalry forces, which itself was a result of changes in early modern warfare such as the introduction of firearms and increased importance of infantry.
  • Burns deplored the British Army which had, in his view, been transformed from the "Sir Galahad of History" into the "janissary of the Jews".
  • At the beginning of the 19th century Serbia has been ruled by the Ottoman Empire for almost three centuries; In late 1801 renegade Janissary leaders (soldiers of the Ottoman sultan see janissary) ruled over that northern edge of the Ottoman Empire known as the Sanjak of Smederevo or Pashalik of Belgrade, with unrestrained brutality, the four were known as the Dahijas.
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