O JANIČARSKOM ZAKONU سدأ نارن يكي ١٠ رى ا و ص تاريخى
ABOUT THE JANISSARYLAW سدأ نارن يكي ١٠ رى ا و ص تاريخى

Summary/Abstract: The contribution presented gives a survey both of an Ottoman source edition and a summary of an important legal code from the early seventeenth century. It is an extensive janissary corps law of 1606. The name of the code author is unknown, but it is understood that it was a retired janissary, mentioned as a korucu (a guardian), who says about himself that for twenty-one years he had been serving as a janissary notary, and that his grandfather had been the agha of Istanbul for fourteen years. This fact by itself ensures authenticity of the presented data on the structure and set-up of that corps. The source edition has been preserved in the part of the original Ottoman text from the mentioned code with a translation into Bosnian as presented here. Our purpose is to present in extenso a text about an important episode which has been often quoted, but has never been published as a whole. It is about an unusual and historic encounter of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror with the Bosnian population gathered near Jajce, in May 1463, after the fail of the Kingdom of Bosnia. This is the main purpose of this paper.

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