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SPAHIS (in Persian Sipari, meaning warriors, and synonymous with Sepoy)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 527 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPAHIS (in Persian Sipari, meaning warriors, and synonymous with Sepoy) originally the holders of fiefs in Central
Asia
  who yielded personal military service to their superior
chief
 . In time the
term
  came to be applied to the soldiery furnished in their own
stead
 . A similar institution existed in Turkey, and the " Spahis " were the light irregular cavalry which from the time of
Sultan
  Amurath I. (1326) down to the beginning of the 19th
century
  formed the flower of the Turkish army; at one period they are estimated to have numbered 130,000. " Spahis " is the
term
  now applied to certain native cavalry regiments in Algiers and
Tunis
 , officered by Frenchmen.


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