Ch 15 Vocab Flashcards

132690718	beys	provincial governors in the Ottoman Empire	0
132690719	sultan	the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)	1
132690720	Golden Horn	nickname for Constantinople (capital of Byzantine empire) because it was shaped like a horn and brought in lots of trade (money, gold) because of its access to the Mediterranean, Black, and Aegean seas	2
132690721	Bosporus and Dardanelles	a narrow strait linking the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara;, the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey	3
132690722	Yen cheri/ Janissaries	Turks called to describe the Otomman Infantry force meaning "new soldiers.";, Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826. See also devshirme. (p. 526, 675)	4
132690723	Battle of Kosovo and Murad	It was between the Muslim Ottoman Turks and Christian Serb armies. Serbs lost. In 1990's serb nationalists used the loss to stir up anger against current day Muslim Bosnian Serbs and to promote larger ethnically serbian nation;, defeated Serbs in Battle of Kosovo, established capital at Edirne, began Janisseries	5
132690724	Serbs and Bulgars	An ethnic group that dominates in Bosnia, Kosovo, and other regions of the former Yugoslavia., People of Bulgaria, was in a innovative relationship with Byzantine in the early years of the Bulgar's existence as a state.	6