Copilot
Your everyday AI companion
About 76,800 results
  1. See more
    See more
    See all on Wikipedia
    See more

    A bashi-bazouk (Ottoman Turkish: باشی بوزوق başıbozuk, IPA: [baʃɯboˈzuk], lit. ' one whose head is turned, damaged head, crazy-head ' , roughly "leaderless" or "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army , raised in times of war. See more

    A bashi-bazouk was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army, raised in times of war. The army chiefly enlisted Albanians and Circassians as bashi-bazouks, but recruits came from all ethnic … See more

    The bashi-bazouks were notorious for being violently brutal and undisciplined, thus giving the term its second, colloquial meaning of … See more

    Overview image
    Depictions in art image

    Although the Ottoman armies always contained irregular troops such as mercenaries as well as regular soldiers, the strain on the … See more

    • An Albanian bashi-bazouk in Egypt. Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1870.
    • Drawing of a bashi-bazouk by Francis Davis Millet, 1889.
    • An Albanian bashi-bazouk painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme in the 1860s. See more

    Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license
    Feedback
  2. WEBBashi-Bazouk. Jean-Léon Gérôme French. 1868–69. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 804. This arresting picture was made after Gérôme returned to Paris from a twelve-week journey to the Near East in 1868.

  3. People also ask
    Albanian Bashi-Bazouk Chieftain by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1881. A bashi-bazouk ( Ottoman Turkish: باشی بوزوق başıbozuk, IPA: [baʃɯboˈzuk], lit. 'one whose head is turned, damaged head, crazy-head', roughly "leaderless" or "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army, raised in times of war.
    en.wikipedia.org
    Can you list the top facts and stats about Bashi-bazouk? A bashi-bazouk ( Ottoman Turkish: باشی بوزوق başıbozuk, IPA: [ baʃɯboˈzuk], lit. 'one whose head is turned, damaged head, crazy-head', roughly "leaderless" or "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army, raised in times of war.
    In which case, are you familiar with who the bashi-bazouks actually were? The word bashi-bazouk literally means ‘damaged head’ meaning leaderless or without discipline. ‘Irregulars’ in the Ottoman army, they hailed from lands across the Ottoman empire, from Egypt to the Balkans.
    Of particular service to the Ottoman empire were bashi-bazouks recruited from Albania and the Circassia. These soldiers were known as Arnauts, whose ethnonym derived from the Greek term Arvanites, and it is they who pervade the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme.
    Bashi-bazouks' atrocities in Ottoman Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Martyresses (1877), painting by Konstantin Makovsky depicting the rape of two Bulgarian women in a church by one African-looking and two Turkish-looking bashi-bazouks, during the April Uprising.
    en.wikipedia.org
    “Bashi-Bazouk,” by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), is one of the most beautiful I know. A few billionaires and oil barons have loved it, too — but more of that in a minute.