Palace school

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Palace school was part of House of Ottoman system that is designated to educate (rise) Ottoman Empire's governing elite. Palace school is really not a single track but was in two. First one was the Madrasa (Ottoman Turkish:Medrese) for the Muslims, which educated the scholars and the state officials in accordance with Islamic tradition. Second track was a free-boarding school for the Christians the "Enderun" (Ottoman Turkish:Enderûn), which recruited annual 3,000 students from Christian young males between 8 and 20 years old which come from one in forty families among the communities settled in Rumelia and/or the Balkans, a process named Devshirmeh (Ottoman Turkish:Devşirme)^[1].

[edit] See also

• Madrasa
• Enderun School

[edit] Notes

v • d • e State organisation of the Ottoman Empire House of Osman Ottoman Dynasty - Imperial Harem - Palace Schools see also: Ottoman Caliphate Porte (Divan) Grand Vizier - Vizier - Sheikh ul-Islam see also: Ottoman Senate (2nd Constitutional Era) Imperial Government Minister of War - Education Minister see also: List of parties Administrative Subdivisions Bey, Elder (religious), Millet (Ottoman Empire)