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Were safavids members of janissary

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9y ago
Updated: 11/10/2020

NO. The Safavids were a rival empire to the Ottomans. The Janissaries were the elite troops of the Ottoman Empire, usually made of Serb, Greek, and Bulgarian Christians who were forcibly converted to Islam and made to fight against all of the Ottomans' enemies in exchange for perceived power.

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