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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
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• Pindari, irregular horsemen in 18th-century India
• Military of the Ottoman Empire
• Military history of Turkey See moreAlthough 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• Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor, ed. (1993). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-08265-6 See more
Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license 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.
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