ASAPPI

ASAPPI
ASAPPI
auxiliares copiae Turcarum. Cum enim Turcici exercitus robur in duplici hoc militum genere tantum consistat, in Ianizaris, qui pedites; et Spahis, qui equites sunt: Praeter hos copias habent ex Christianis conscriptas, Asappos iis dictos, qui in bello praemittuntur, ur hostium primum impetum suâ caede morentur, sieque succedentibus mox Ianizaris ac Spahis faciliorem ac certiorem
victoriam relinquant. Vide Ioh. Georgium Hornium Orb. Palitic. p. 32. et 33.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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