Janissaries

A janissary ( , ; , , ) was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan's household troops. They were one of the first modern standing armies, and perhaps the first infantry force in the world to be equipped primarily with firearms, adopted during the reign of Murad II (r. 1421–1444, 1446–1451). The corps was established under either Orhan or Murad I, and dismantled by Mahmud II in 1826.

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1505–1579)

military/civil rank and honorific title in the Ottoman Empire

Disbandment of the Ottoman Janissary Corps

Ottoman military commander 1446–1462(1469)?, "kapudan pasha" and the highest military rank, grand vizier, during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror"

Son of Vlad II Dracul

Ottoman governor and admiral

Ottoman rebel

Ottoman Empire military band

Serbian writer

shaken percussion instrument consisting of a pole with bells or jingles hung from attached crescents or other shapes

Commander of the Janissary Corps

struggles over Janissary reform in the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman poet and military figure (1498-1582)

Ottoman Empire politician

Chorbaji (sometimes variously transliterated as tchorbadji, chorbadzhi, tschorbadji) (Turkish: çorbacı) (English: Soup Seller) was a military rank of the corps of Janissaries in the Ottoman Empire, used for the commander of an orta (regiment), i.e., approximately corresponding to the rank of colonel. The word is pronounced in Turkish and literally means "person in charge of çorba (soup)".

Ottoman Grand Vizier (1679-1748)

thumb|160px|Janissary boluk-bashi (1780). Boluk-bashi (, , "head of [infantry] company, company captain") was an Ottoman officer rank equivalent to captain. It was replaced in the 19th century by the rank of yüzbaşı.

Yamaks () were auxiliary troops of the army of the Ottoman Empire raised from the local Muslim population. Initially they were non-military members of Ottoman forces who in later periods of the empire evolved into newly recruited janissary troops and eventually became ill-trained and ill-paid garrison guards.

Albanian commander

1589 mutiny

military unit