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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 527 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPAHIS (in
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Persian Sipari, meaning warriors, and synonymous with
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Sepoy)  originally the holders of fiefs in Central
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Asia who yielded
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personal military service to their
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superior
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chief . In
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time the
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term came to be applied to the soldiery furnished in their own
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stead . A similar institution existed in
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Turkey, and the "
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Spahis " were the
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light irregular
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cavalry which from the time of
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Sultan Amurath I . (1326) down to the beginning of the 19th
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century formed the
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flower of the
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Turkish
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army; at one
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period they are estimated to have numbered 130,000 . " Spahis " is the term now applied to certain native cavalry regiments in
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Algiers and
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Tunis, officered by Frenchmen .

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