Arnauts
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Arnauts
Arnaut (Ottoman Turkish: آرناﺌود, modern Turkish spelling: Arnavut) is the Turkish word for the people of Albania. Arnauts in modern Turkey are people of Albanian descent. Historically, in the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe, the word often referred generally to mercenary soldiers from Albania, Greece, Bulgaria or Serbia.[1][2][3]
Arnaut is also the Turkish name for Arvanites, while Arvanites itself is the Greek version of Arbëreshë, a term for Albanian speakers or for mercenaries of various ethnicity, as above.[4]
References
- ^ Arnaut at the Free Dictionary
- ^ Gordon Thomas, History of the Greek revolution, 1844, London & Edinburgh, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 95.
"Included under the generic name of Arnauts, it was recruited from Roumeliote Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians and Servians, who acted as body-guards to the princes, the great functionaries, and even the simple Boyards." - ^ Alan W. Fisher, The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772-1783, Cambridge University Press, I970, pp. 94, 95.
- ^ Trikoupis Spyridon, History of the Greek Revolution, 2nd edition, Londond, 1860 volume A', page 24 (in Greek):
"Arvanites were called in the two hegemonies (Moldavia, Vlachia, early 19th c.) the mixed Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbians, connected by the same dogma and living by mercenarism".
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