Question
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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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
Data
| Yale B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn B | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vassar | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale C | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |