According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 'in early days, all Christians were enrolled indiscriminately. This was the taking (enslaving) of non-Muslim boys, notably Anatolian and Balkan Christians Jews were never subject to devЕџirme, nor were children from Turkic families. ДЄgha of the Janissaries, the commander of the corps, in 1768ДЇrom the 1380s to 1648, the Janissaries were gathered through the devЕџirme system, which was abolished in 1648. The corps was abolished by Sultan Mahmud II in 1826 in the Auspicious Incident, in which 6,000 or more were executed. By the time the Janissaries were suppressed, it was too late for Ottoman military power to catch up with the West. Steadily the Ottoman military power became outdated, but when the Janissaries felt their privileges were being threatened, or outsiders wanted to modernize them, or they might be superseded by the cavalrymen, they rose in rebellion. The Janissaries were a formidable military unit in the early years, but as Western Europe modernized its military organization technology, the Janissaries became a reactionary force that resisted all change. Consequently, the corps gradually lost its military character, undergoing a process that has been described as 'civilianization'. Civilians bought their way into it in order to benefit from the improved socioeconomic status it conferred upon them. By the seventeenth century, due to a dramatic increase in the size of the Ottoman standing army, the corps' initially strict recruitment policy was relaxed. Forbidden to marry before the age of 40 or engage in trade, their complete loyalty to the Sultan was expected. Unlike typical slaves, they were paid regular salaries. They became famed for internal cohesion cemented by strict discipline and order. Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devЕџirme system of child levy, by which Albanians, Armenians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Serbs were taken, levied, circumcised and converted to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army. The corps was most likely established during the Viziership of Alaeddin under Sultan Orhan (1324вЂ“1362). 'new soldier') was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and the first modern standing army in Europe. A Janissary ( Ottoman Turkish: ЩЉЪЩЉЪ†Ш±Щ‰вЂЋ, romanized: yeЕ‹iГ§eri,, lit.

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