Turkish Infantry Guard in the 14th to 19th Century
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Canada, Group 1280, Puzzle 1 (Ice Fields and Glaciers).
Question is: Turkish Infantry Guard in the 14th to 19th Century
and the answer is: JANISSARY
Word Meaning:
JANISSARY — (historical) An infantry soldier, often of European Christian background from the Balkans as well as Eastern Europe and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826).
Definitions from Wiktionary.