Sultan Murad I, Janissaries, Chernomen: Episode 5
Nov 30, 2018•21 min
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"Sultan Murad I, Janissaries, Chernomen" Episode 5
- Orhan is dead
- Murad ascends the throne to be girded with the sword of Osman
- While away handling his business in Anatolia, Serbian lords get the notion they can cause trouble
- Along the way Murad establishes the Imperial Janissary Corp
- The Janissaries are an elite fighting force recruited as children and raised in the strict discipline and arts of war to serve later Sultans as the Shock Troops of the Empire
- The stage is rapidly being set for epic battles in the future between the Ottomans and their soon-to-be Balkan subjects
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