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BASHI-BAZOUKS AND CIRCASSIANS. Share full article. March 3, 1878. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from March 3, 1878, Page 3 Buy Reprints.
BASHI BAZOUKS SPREAD TERROR IN BULGARIA; Many Villages Have Lost a Third of Their Male Population. Any Peasant Venturing to Resist Them Maltreated or Denounced as a Rebel -- Villagers in Despair.
Gérôme’s canvas, which he painted over the winter of 1868-1869, depicts a so-called Bashi-Bazouk. Bashi-Bazouks were irregular troops, or mercenaries, who fought for the Ottoman Empire.
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