millet

millet

englanti
  1. hirssi

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millet

Millet, Jean Francois Millet.

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millet (englanti > suomi)

  1. hirssi

millet englanniksi

  1. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

  2. puhekieltä A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

  3. 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 2007, http://books.google.com/books?id=G62MCZ3RiIEC&pg=PA14&dq=millet page 14:

  4. (..) in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
  5. 2009, (w), A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 262:

  6. Christians and Jews as People of the Book (..) were organized into separate communities, or millets, defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.
  7. English millet (gloss)

  8. nation

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