History

The firman for the abolition of the Janissary, 15th June 1826. By my personal calculations for a period of 280 years in which the devshirme was actively carried out in Bulgarian lands, some 20 000 Bulgarian boys were taken into service in the Ottoman army - roughly 500 per 7 yrs. pic.twitter.com/A3ks3uAQwC

— Alexander Stoyanov (@Al_Stoyanov) April 11, 2022