Unlike typical slaves, they were paid regular salaries. They became famed for internal cohesion cemented by strict discipline and order. Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy, by which Albanians, Armenians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, and Serbs were taken, levied, circumcised and converted to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army. The corps was most likely established during the Viziership of Alaeddin under Sultan Orhan (1324–1362). 'new soldier') was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and the first modern standing army in Europe.
A Janissary ( Ottoman Turkish: يڭيچرى, romanized: yeŋiçeri,, lit.
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