Part 6: Ottoman Strengths and Weaknesses

In an attempt to explain the Habsburg victory at Vienna, many have pointed to the weakening of the Ottomans Janissary system in the earlier part of the 17th century. True, the system did suffer when the Sultan rescinded the requirement that the “new” soldiers no longer had to come from Christian (often Serbian) parents and […]

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