Janissaries aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, Holzstich, veröffentlicht 1893 - Stock-Grafiken

Janissaries from the 18th century (senior officer, officer, and soldier). It was a military elite infantry unit of the Ottoman Empire from 14th to 19th century - made up through the devşirme system of child slavery, by which young Christian boys, notably Albanians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks and Serbs, were taken from the Balkans, enslaved and converted to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army. Wood engraving, published in 1893.