Definition of Devshirme

1. Noun. Systematic collection of non-Muslim children on rural Christian populations of the Balkans, practiced by Ottoman Turks, in which every three or four years 300 to 1000 healthy boys and young men had to be taken by force to Turkey, converted to Islam and educated for military profession or religious disciplines. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Devshirme

devouringly
devours
devout
devouter
devoutest
devoutful
devoutless
devoutly
devoutness
devoutnesses
devow
devowed
devowing
devows
devs
devshirme (current term)
devulgarize
devulgarized
devulgarizes
devulgarizing
devvel
devvelled
devvels
dew
dew-fall
dew-point
dew drop
dew itch
dew point
dew points

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