YES. The Janissaries were required to perform to the obligations set before them by their Ottoman masters. However, they were not slaves in a conventional sense since they did wield a large amount of political power and were often more powerful than free people. However, they had no control over their own employment, residence, and movement. This makes them slaves.
The Ottoman system for recruiting Christian slaves from the Balkans for the creation of the Janissaries (physically strong boys), Bureaucrats (mentally strong boys), and Harem Women (girls) was Devşirme.
The term Janissaries in Turkish means new troops, which is exactly what they were. Janissaries were new form of military order created first by the Othman Sultan Murad the First, forming the first standing army. Janissaries were enslaved sons captured during wars and they were given special training and privileges to be an elite force giving their loyalty only to the sultan. Janissaries became a very powerful force within the Othman Empire; in many occasions, they deposed off sultans and installed others. The end of the janissaries came in 1826 after their revolt against Sultan Mahmud the Second who succeeded in killing most of them.---The parents of Janissaries were also given land and a higher social rank.A janissaries are slaves soldiers, converted to Islam and became fierce fighters.
did the janissaries fought on horseback as cavalry warriors
Yes
The Janissaries were an elite unit of SOLDIERS, but a number of individuals who were raised as Janissaries but seen as unfit for war were re-purposed as scholars, administrators, and diplomats. None of them were prophets or merchants.
They were Paid slaves
That particular army was called the JANISSARIES.
The Ottoman system for recruiting Christian slaves from the Balkans for the creation of the Janissaries (physically strong boys), Bureaucrats (mentally strong boys), and Harem Women (girls) was Devşirme.
The term Janissaries in Turkish means new troops, which is exactly what they were. Janissaries were new form of military order created first by the Othman Sultan Murad the First, forming the first standing army. Janissaries were enslaved sons captured during wars and they were given special training and privileges to be an elite force giving their loyalty only to the sultan. Janissaries became a very powerful force within the Othman Empire; in many occasions, they deposed off sultans and installed others. The end of the janissaries came in 1826 after their revolt against Sultan Mahmud the Second who succeeded in killing most of them.---The parents of Janissaries were also given land and a higher social rank.A janissaries are slaves soldiers, converted to Islam and became fierce fighters.
Janissaries - novel - was created in 1979.
Janissaries - novel - has 335 pages.
Because the janissaries protected the sultan
The ISBN of Janissaries - novel - is 0-671-87709-7.
did the janissaries fought on horseback as cavalry warriors
Yes
The Janissaries were an elite unit of SOLDIERS, but a number of individuals who were raised as Janissaries but seen as unfit for war were re-purposed as scholars, administrators, and diplomats. None of them were prophets or merchants.
Maybe because the Janissaries were to turn into unruly Pratorian guards, who made and unmade sultans.