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HAIDUK (also written Hayduk, Heiduc, Heyduke and Heyduque)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 820 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HAIDUK (also written Hayduk, Heiduc, Heyduke and Heyduque) , a
term
  which appears originally to have meant " robber " or " brigand," a sense it retains in Servia and some other parts of the Balkan Peninsula. It is probably derived from the Turkish haidud, " marauder," but its origin is not absolutely certain. Most of the European races with which the Turks came into close contact during the 15th and 16th centuries seem to have adopted it as a
loan
 -word, and it appears in Magyar as hajdis (plural hajduk), in Serbo-Croatian, Rumanian, Polish and Cech as hajduk, in Bulgarian as hajdutin and in Greek as XaivTobrrts. By the beginning of the 17th century its use had spread north and west as far as Sweden and
Great
  Britain. In
Hungary
  it was applied to a class of
mercenary
  foot-soldiers of Magyar stock. In 16o5 these haiduks were rewarded for their fidelity to the
Protestant
  party (see
HUNGARY
 : History) with titles of
nobility
  and territorial rights over a
district
  situated on the left bank of the river Theiss, known thenceforward as the
Haiduk
  region. This was enlarged in 1876 and converted into the county of Hajdu (Ger. Hajduken). Hajdu is also a common prefix in Hungarian, place-names, e.g. Hajdu-Szoboszl5, Hajdu-Namas. In Austria-Hungary, Germany, Poland, Sweden and some other countries,
haiduk
  came to mean an attendant in a
court
  of law,or a male servant, dressed in Hungarian semi-military costume. It is also occasionally used as a synonym for " footman " or " lackey."


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