Devşirme or devshirme was the practice by which the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey (see the other names of the Ottoman State), was an Islamic empire that lasted from 1299 to November 1, 1922 (as an imperial monarchy) or July 24, 1923 (de jure, as a state). It was succeeded by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially conscripted boys from Christian Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament families, who were taken from their families by force, converted to Islam Islam (Arabic: الإسلام al-’islām, pronounced [ʔislæːm] [note 1]) is the religion articulated by the Qur’an, a religious book considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of the single incomparable God (Arabic: الله, Allāh), and by the Prophet of Islam Muhammad's demonstrations and real-life examples (called the, trained and enrolled in one of the four royal institutions: the Palace, the Scribes, the Religious and the Military.
The devşirme system humiliated non-Muslim societies controlled by the Ottomans and was resisted.[1][2]
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