| 41. | The Janissaries dug in behind ditches and two palisades.
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| 42. | The Janissary system was introduced in the 14th century.
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| 43. | Bektashi served as a kind of chaplain for Janissaries.
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| 44. | Only Janissaries'own commanding officers could punish them.
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| 45. | Selim was taken prisoner and murdered by the Janissaries.
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| 46. | The authorities kept the Janissaries in their barracks and slaughtered thousands of them.
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| 47. | While Suleiman was campaigning in kapikulu " forces mostly composed of Janissaries.
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| 48. | Roughly 100 other Janissaries fled to the Cistern of Philoxenos where many drowned.
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| 49. | Many were presumably not regular forces, but some were janissary and spakh.
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| 50. | Another assault on September 28 with 700 janissaries failed after a prolonged bombardment.
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