Bashi-Bazouks (Bashi-Bazouks`) , irregular, undisciplined troops in the pay of the Sultan; rendered themselves odious by their brutality in the Bulgarian atrocities of 1876, as well as, more or less, in the time of the Crimean war.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bashahr * Bashkirs