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[@SigurimiShtet](/creator/twitter/SigurimiShtet)
"He has actually gone insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SigurimiShtet/status/1982152623173091640) [@SigurimiShtet](/creator/x/SigurimiShtet) 2025-10-25T18:29Z 2139 followers, 225.3K engagements


"During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a more systematic method of recruitment in the Ottoman Empire was developed: the devsirme or 'collection'. Every seven years (or more often in periods of frequent war) officials would tour the Christian villages of the Balkans forcibly recruiting teenage boys. According to one sixteenth-century regulation the levy was of one boy from every forty households. These were then taken off to Istanbul and Anatolia converted to Islam taught to speak Turkish and trained to serve either as soldiers or as servants in the imperial household"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SigurimiShtet/status/1982643972154552769) [@SigurimiShtet](/creator/x/SigurimiShtet) 2025-10-27T03:02Z 2139 followers, 1039 engagements


"🧵The Vlachs and Albanians of Medieval Kosovo (1200s1300s) By the late 13th century two categories of people in Nemanjid Serbia received special treatment under Duans Code the Vlachs and the Albanians (Arvanas). They appear together again and again in charters usually in the same breath"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SigurimiShtet/status/1980408701094633504) [@SigurimiShtet](/creator/x/SigurimiShtet) 2025-10-20T23:00Z 2139 followers, 1863 engagements


"@crowd_glow The difference is that Steve Jobs actually created something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SigurimiShtet/status/1982374636290531692) [@SigurimiShtet](/creator/x/SigurimiShtet) 2025-10-26T09:11Z 2139 followers, 4669 engagements


"Mass-colonization by Turkic settlers was an exceptional thing in the Balkans confined to a few areas of Bulgaria Thrace and Macedonia; it did not touch Kosovo Albania or any of the Slav lands further north"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SigurimiShtet/status/1981570074587574317) [@SigurimiShtet](/creator/x/SigurimiShtet) 2025-10-24T03:54Z 2139 followers, 34.6K engagements


"In 1565 there was an uprising against the devsirme in Albania and some areas such as the mining district of Novo Brdo were granted exemption from the devirme as a special privilege. Albanians were particularly prized by the devsirme collectors for their physical toughness and fighting skills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SigurimiShtet/status/1982645296694710635) [@SigurimiShtet](/creator/x/SigurimiShtet) 2025-10-27T03:07Z 2139 followers, 1246 engagements