예니체리

예니체리는 오스만 제국의 유명한 보병 군단의 이름이다. 황제의 직속 경호대이자 친위대 역할을 하는 정예 상비군단으로 전투에 임하면 용맹성으로 유명했다. 14세기에 처음 조직되어 1826년에 마무드 2세가 해산할 때까지 존재하였다.

Janissary

A Janissary was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops, bodyguards and the first modern standing army in Europe.[3][4] The corps was most likely established during the reign of Murad I (1362–1389). Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child slavery, by which young Christian boys, notably Armenians, Albanians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks and Serbs, were taken from the Balkans, enslaved and converted to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army.