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- A bashi-bazouk (Ottoman Turkish: باشی بوزوق başıbozuk, IPA: [baʃɯboˈzuk], lit. 'one whose head is turned, damaged head, crazy-head', roughly "leaderless"...
- bashi-bazouk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bashi-bazouk was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army. Bashi-bazouk may also refer to: Bashi-Bazouk...
- Bashi-Bazouk (possibly titled Bachi-Bouzouk nègre) is a painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a Bashi-bazouk...
- Bulgarian and Russian army. Bashi-bazouks, returning with the spoils from the Romanian s**** of the Danube. 1877 engraving. Bashi-bazouks' atrocities in Bulgaria...
- the artist's orientalist phase of creativity. The picture shows an armed bashi-bozuk relaxing with tea or coffee and smoking hookah. Resting Bashibozuk...
- Corps & Deli Cavalry (Janissary Period); 1860 Imperial Army Corps of Bashi-Bazouk". Ottoman Turkish Uniforms WW1 History First World War Militaria Turkey...
- combat duties. Notable examples of regulars relying on irregulars include Bashi-bazouk units in the Ottoman Empire, auxiliary cohorts of Germanic peoples in...
- which sent a paramilitary detachment of some 5,000 irregular soldiers (bashi-bazouk), led by Ahmet Aga from Barutin which surrounded the town. After the...
- April to May 1876. The rebellion was suppressed by irregular Ottoman bashi-bazouk units that engaged in indiscriminate slaughter of both rebels and non-combatants...
- Ottoman military machine, including regular army garrisons and irregular bashi-bazouks, was mobilized and patrolled the area. On 20 May 1876, a single bullet...