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    Ghilman (singular Arabic: غُلاَم ghulām, plural غِلْمَان ghilmān) were slave-soldiers and/or mercenaries in armies throughout the Islamic world. Islamic...
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  • Safavid and to a lesser extent, Mughal empires, as described in the article Ghilman, which is the plural form of the word. It is traditionally used as the...
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  • swords inspired by types introduced to the Middle East by Central Asian ghilmans. These swords include the Persian shamshir (the origin of the word scimitar)...
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    throne during a troubled period. Under his leadership, Iran developed the ghilman system where thousands of Circassian, Georgian, and Armenian slave-soldiers...
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    1990s, it was widely believed that the earliest Mamluks were known as Ghilman or Ghulam (another broadly synonymous term for slaves,) and were bought...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    domestic service and sexual objects. The use of slaves for military service, ghilman, initially disappeared during the Mongol period, but it was revived and...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Daud Khan Undiladze, ghilman and the beylerbey of Ganja and Karabakh from 1625 to 1630....
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    completion of which they were either enrolled in one of the newly created ghilman regiments, or employed in the royal household. The rest of the masses of...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Middle Eastern civilizations through their shared Islamic faith. Turkic Ghilman slave-soldiers serving under the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates introduced...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    India, where they were one of the main ethnicities of military slavery (ghilman) for centuries. In the early modern age, Bukhara met competition as a slave...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Archived from the original on 16 May 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2008. "Ghilmans and Eunuchs". Archived from the original on 27 December 2008. Retrieved...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    power however, had come to lie with the elite Turkish slave-soldiers (ghilmān) and with Ahmad's own father, Talha, who, as the Caliphate's main military...
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    Mazalim Officials Robe of honour and tiraz Shurta Vizier Financial administration Diwan Iqta' Kharaj Military Abna al-dawla Ghilman Battles Commanders Wars...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Daylamite slave-soldiers (ghilmān). The adoption of the ghilmān system had far-reaching repercussions, as the Turkic ghilmān rapidly assumed senior positions...
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    ties with the ghilmān, the foreign-born "slave-soldiers" that now provided the professional mainstay of the Abbasid army. The ghilmān were highly proficient...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée labor Field slaves in the United...
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    Slavery in Africa Slave narrative § North African slave narratives Kapi Agha Ghilman Mamluk Turkish Abductions Guðríður Símonardóttir Jan Janszoon Ólafur Egilsson...
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