u/Daokadi

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Image 1 — Greeks paid about 50% less tax under the Ottoman Empire than they did under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines adopted the Ottoman tax system to ensure that the Christian peasants would not rebel in parts of Macedonia after briefly capturing the region from the Ottomans.

Image 2 — Greeks paid about 50% less tax under the Ottoman Empire than they did under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines adopted the Ottoman tax system to ensure that the Christian peasants would not rebel in parts of Macedonia after briefly capturing the region from the Ottomans.

Image 3 — Greeks paid about 50% less tax under the Ottoman Empire than they did under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines adopted the Ottoman tax system to ensure that the Christian peasants would not rebel in parts of Macedonia after briefly capturing the region from the Ottomans.

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Greeks paid about 50% less tax under the Ottoman Empire than they did under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines adopted the Ottoman tax system to ensure that the Christian peasants would not rebel in parts of Macedonia after briefly capturing the region from the Ottomans.

u/Daokadi — 5 days ago

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According to the Japanese intellectual Nagase Hōsuke, who visited the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Turks were a very calm people who didn’t quarrel, they worked/spent time in silence and despised idle talk and were an honest people who never lied even jokingly (1914 book)

English translation in the first, actual source here:

https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/151801

u/Daokadi — 16 days ago