Martalogii – o categorie de slujitori domnești din Țara Românească prea puțin cunoscută (secolele XVII-XVIII)
The Martolos – A Little-Known Category of Princely Servants From Wallachia (17th-18th Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: In the army of the Ottoman Empire, there was a military organization consisting of soldiers recruited from the Christian inhabitants of the conquered areas, called martolos (the spelling forms martaloz and martoloz are also found in the writing in Arabic characters). In Romanian, the term was taken in the form martalog (singular) and martalogi (plural). There are, so far, only suppositions about the origin of the martalogs and the word martalog (martolos). We note that, at least so far, no historical source has been identified to show their origins and this source of the term martolos. Historians speak of an etymology from Greek, Latin, or Arabic language. The present study aims to clarify, as much as possible, the origin and evolution of this military structure in the Ottoman army, but also its appearance and evolution in the army of Wallachia, at the end of the seventeenth century and during the eighteenth century

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