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The guards charged with maintaining and defending a derbend in exchange for tax relief..
The derbendci, some two thousand families of Rumelia, acted as guards of mountain passes, bridges, and other strategic locations in exchange for tax relief and represent a transition from real fighters to auxiliary forces.
The derbendci, inadequate in number, could not cope with the new situation.
In other areas self-rule resulted from the fact that certain occupational groups, such as miners, tar extractors, horse breeders, derbendci (guardians of mountain passes), saline workers or producers of gunpowder, had been exempted from certain taxes, and subsequently these 'privileges' were associated with their settlements as well.
These exemptions were similar to those granted to the derbendci, men who guarded roads and mountain passes.
Entire villages were often charged with the derbendci duty and consequently exempted from certain taxes.
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Derbendci means The guards charged with maintaining and defending a derbend in exchange for tax relief..
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The derbendci, some two thousand families of Rumelia, acted as guards of mountain passes, bridges, and other strategic locations in exchange for tax relief and represent a transition from real fighters to auxiliary forces.
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