Arnauts
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Not to be confused with the French name Arnaud.
Arnaut (Ottoman Turkish: آرناﺌود) is a Turkish term used to denote Albanians. In modern Turkish the term is used as Arnavut (pl. Arnavutlar).
As mercenary formations of the era were composed chiefly of Albanians the term took additional meaning like in the Danubian Principalities, where it was also used to denote various mercenary units. [1][2][3]
As a surname throughout the empire it spread in the forms of: al-Arnaut Arabic: أرنائوط (Arabic), Arnautović (Serbo-Croatian), Arnaoutis (Greek), Arnautov or Arnaudov (Bulgarian) and Arnăutu (Romanian).
References [edit]
- ^ Arnaut at the Free Dictionary
- ^ Gordon Thomas, History of the Greek revolution, 1844, London & Edinburgh, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 95.
"Included under the generic name of Arnauts, it was recruited from Roumeliote Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians and Servians, who acted as body-guards to the princes, the great functionaries, and even the simple Boyards." - ^ Alan W. Fisher, The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772-1783, Cambridge University Press, I970, pp. 94, 95.
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