"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message
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"Jim Wilkins" on Sat, 4 Aug 2012
16:53:07 -0400
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There is even room for willing (or drafted) non-Muslims as
Janissaries.

Janissaries were slaves, iirc.
pyotr filipivich

Nominally; in practice they were Praetorians.

jsw