[OI]Osmanlı Ordusu[OI] #6551573

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The first Ottoman army had been composed entirely of Turkmen nomads, who had remained largely under the command of the religious orders that had converted most of them to Islam. Armed with bows and arrows and such, those nomadic cavalrymen had lived mostly on the war-reward, although those assigned as ghazis to border areas or sent to conquer and raid Christian lands also had been given more permanent revenues in the form of taxes levied on the lands they garrisoned. Those revenue holdings were formalized as mukâṭaʿas, held by tribal leaders and ghazi commanders who used their revenues to feed, supply, and arm their followers. It was that type of mukâṭaʿa that developed into the Ottoman form of a fief, the timar, which was the basis of Ottoman military and administrative organization as the European portions of the empire were conquered from the vessels in the 15th century and placed under direct Ottoman administration.

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