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

SPAHIS (in See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian Sipari, meaning warriors, and synonymous with See also:

• SEPOY

Sepoy)  originally the holders of fiefs in Central See also:

• ASIA

Asia who yielded See also:

• PERSONAL

personal military service to their See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief . In See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the See also:

• TERM

term came to be applied to the soldiery furnished in their own See also:

• STEAD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1849– )

stead . A similar institution existed in See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey, and the " See also:

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

Spahis " were the See also:

• LIGHT

light irregular See also:

• CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

cavalry which from the time of See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

Sultan Amurath I . (1326) down to the beginning of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century formed the See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower of the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army; at one See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period they are estimated to have numbered 130,000 . " Spahis " is the term now applied to certain native cavalry regiments in See also:

• ALGIERS (Fr. Alger, Arab. Jezair, i.e. The Islands)

Algiers and See also:

• TUNIS

Tunis, officered by Frenchmen .