What is another word for mercenary that starts with jan?

Answer 1

The word is: 'Janissary.'

However Janissary's were not mercenaries. They were slaves used by the Byzantine empire as military leaders and government bureaucrats. The theory was that since a slave could not own property, they would be difficult to bribe.

Answer 2

The word you are looking for is Janissary but they where not mercenaries. They where European followers of Islam. What happened was the Turks came in captured poor European children and took them back and showed them wealth and wonders they could only imagine.

Then they offered if they would convert to Islam and fight as soldiers for Islam they would live in this life style.

They where in fact a type of slave solider because they where not paid but where given room and board have high quality but no actual pay.

Janissary where the boogie men of their time. Soldiers in Europe where frightened of them and continued to be till the siege of Vienna where the Turks where beaten and then broken.

The siege is also where we got coffee from.

Janissary and Mamelukes where both slave soldiers employed by diffrent Islamic nations.

Answer 3

Janissary

Answer 4

Janissary, although they aren't true mercenaries, in the modern sense, but they were made up primarily of slaves, prisoners (Of war). They eventually were disbanded in what became known as the *Auspicious Incedent".

Answer 5

Mercenaries are hired guns with no loyalties, but there is no word I know of which describes them that begins with jan.

Answer 6

Janissary.

Answer 7

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