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    usually used for auxiliary or rear services, and the infamous blood tax (кръвен данък), also known as devşirme, where young Christian Bulgarian boys were taken...
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    крви, Macedonian: Данок во крв, romanized: Danok vo krv, Bulgarian: Кръвен данък, romanized: Kraven Danak. Historian James L. Gelvin writes that "[t]his...
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