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−	The '''Janissaries''' were new troops formed by boys taken from Christian families in order to protect the [[Ottoman Empire\|Ottoman]] Sultan's household as part of the human taxation known as the [[devshirme]]. The Janissaries began in the 14th century, and were massacred and abolished by [[Sultan Mahmud II]] in 1826.

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