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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Devşirme in the Ottoman Palace SchoolThe primary objective of the Palace School was to train the ablest children for leadership positions, either as military leaders or as high administrators to serve the Empire. Although there are many resemblances between Enderun and other palace schools of the previous civilizations, such as those of the Abbasids, and Seljuks or the contemporary European palace schools, Enderun was unique with respect to the background of the student body and its meritocratic system. In the strict draft phase (Devşirme) students were taken forcefully from the Christian population of the Empire and were converted to Islam (Muslims, Jews and Gypsies were exempted from Devshirme).Those entrusted to find these children were scouts who were specially trained people throughout the Empire's European lands. Scouts were recruiting youngsters according to their talent and ability with school subjects, in addition to their personality, character, and physical perfection. The Enderun candidates were not supposed to be orphans, or the only child in their family (to ensure the candidates had strong family values); they must not have already learned to speak Turkish or a craft/trade. The ideal age of a recruit was between 10 and 20 years of age. Mehmed Refiq Bey mentioned that youth with a bodily defect, no matter how slight, was never admitted into palace service (as cited in ), because Turks believed that a strong soul and a good mind could be found only in a perfect body.The selected children were dressed in red, so that they could not easily escape on the way to Constantinople. The cost of the devsirme service and their clothes were paid by their villages or communities. The boys were gathered into cohorts of a hundred or more to walk to Constantinople where they were circumcised and divided between the palace schools and the military training. Anyone not chosen for the palace spent years being toughened by hard labor on Turkish farms until they were old enough for the military.The brightest youths who fit into the general guidelines and had a strong primary education were then given to selected Muslim families across Anatolia to complete the enculturation process. They would later attend schools across Anatolia to complete their training for six to seven years in order to qualify as ordinary military officers. They would get the highest salaries amongst the administrators of the empire, and very well respected in public. Armagan, defined the system as a pyramid which was designed to select the elite of the elite, the ablest and most physically perfect. Only a very few would reach the Palace school."@en }

• Devshirme_in_the_Ottoman_Palace_School abstract "Devşirme in the Ottoman Palace SchoolThe primary objective of the Palace School was to train the ablest children for leadership positions, either as military leaders or as high administrators to serve the Empire. Although there are many resemblances between Enderun and other palace schools of the previous civilizations, such as those of the Abbasids, and Seljuks or the contemporary European palace schools, Enderun was unique with respect to the background of the student body and its meritocratic system. In the strict draft phase (Devşirme) students were taken forcefully from the Christian population of the Empire and were converted to Islam (Muslims, Jews and Gypsies were exempted from Devshirme).Those entrusted to find these children were scouts who were specially trained people throughout the Empire's European lands. Scouts were recruiting youngsters according to their talent and ability with school subjects, in addition to their personality, character, and physical perfection. The Enderun candidates were not supposed to be orphans, or the only child in their family (to ensure the candidates had strong family values); they must not have already learned to speak Turkish or a craft/trade. The ideal age of a recruit was between 10 and 20 years of age. Mehmed Refiq Bey mentioned that youth with a bodily defect, no matter how slight, was never admitted into palace service (as cited in ), because Turks believed that a strong soul and a good mind could be found only in a perfect body.The selected children were dressed in red, so that they could not easily escape on the way to Constantinople. The cost of the devsirme service and their clothes were paid by their villages or communities. The boys were gathered into cohorts of a hundred or more to walk to Constantinople where they were circumcised and divided between the palace schools and the military training. Anyone not chosen for the palace spent years being toughened by hard labor on Turkish farms until they were old enough for the military.The brightest youths who fit into the general guidelines and had a strong primary education were then given to selected Muslim families across Anatolia to complete the enculturation process. They would later attend schools across Anatolia to complete their training for six to seven years in order to qualify as ordinary military officers. They would get the highest salaries amongst the administrators of the empire, and very well respected in public. Armagan, defined the system as a pyramid which was designed to select the elite of the elite, the ablest and most physically perfect. Only a very few would reach the Palace school.".