At the start of the April Uprising, these military units slaughtered thousands of civilians hiding in the Sveta Nedelya (“SVET-uh nuh-DEL-yuh”) Church during the Batak massacre. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify these irregular Ottoman troops whose Turkish name means “disorderly heads” in reference to their tendency to loot. Gladstone’s Midlothian campaign denounced these units’ involvement in the “Bulgarian horrors.”
ANSWER: bashi-bazouks
[10e] Edward Money wrote a memoir about fighting in this war with poorly trained bashi-bazouk regiments. This war began when Russian ships sailed from an eponymous Black Sea peninsula and fired on the Ottomans at Sinope (“sin-OH-pee”).
ANSWER: Crimean War [or War over Crimea; or Kirim Savaşi; or Vostochnaya Voyna]
[10m] Many bashi-bazouks hailed from this ethnic group who pushed for autonomy with the League of Prizren. Stories of Skanderbeg’s resistance against the Ottomans helped inspire this ethnic group’s National Awakening.
ANSWER: Albanians [or Albanoi or Shqiptarët; accept Gheg Albanians or Tosk Albanians or Kosovar Albanians]
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