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noun
Well-armed, irregular, mainly Sunni Kurdish cavalry formations that operated in the southeastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, plural, plural-only
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Established in 1891 by Sultan Abdul Hamid II and named after him.
