Devshirme

Ottoman practice of levying a "tax" of young Christian males from the Balkans to serve as soldiers, court officers, administrative officers and royal pages in the sultan's household. Instituted in 1395. The most promising recruits received Arabic, Turkish and Islamic education in the sultan's court and palace schools and often attained positions of great power.

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