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The Janissaries of Crete, 1669-1826 – Greek Community of Melbourne Seminar

Spyropoulos is the author of Ottoman Administration and Society in Prerevolutionary Western Crete: Archival Testimonies (1817-1819) (in Greek)

Ottoman Janissary group sings nationalistic songs in Thessaloniki with all pomposity (video)

Some Greeks reportedly invited the group to Thessaloniki

The Janissaries – An Elite Ottoman Army Unit who became Public Enemy No.1

Christian families were obliged to give their most able sons, preferably 8-14 years of age, into the Sultan’s service