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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HAIDUK (also written Hayduk, Heiduc, Heyduke and Heyduque)

HAIDUK (also written Hayduk, Heiduc, Heyduke and Heyduque) , a See also:

TERM

term which appears originally to have meant " robber " or " brigand," a sense it retains in See also:

SERVIA

Servia and some other parts of the See also:

BALKAN

Balkan See also:

Peninsula. It is probably derived from the See also:

TURKISH

Turkish haidud, " marauder," but its origin is not absolutely certain. Most of the See also:

EUROPEAN

European races with which the See also:

TURKS

Turks came into See also:

close contact during the 15th and 16th centuries seem to have adopted it as a See also:

LOAN (adapted from the Scandinavian form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Swed. Mn, Icel. lan, Dut. leen; the O.E. laen appears in " lend," the ultimate source is seen in the root of Gr. Xeiaecv and Lat. linquere, to leave)

loan-word, and it appears in Magyar as hajdis (plural hajduk), in Serbo-Croatian, Rumanian, See also:

POLISH

Polish and Cech as hajduk, in Bulgarian as hajdutin and in See also:

Greek as XaivTobrrts. By the beginning of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century its use had spread See also:

north and See also:

west as far as See also:

Sweden and See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain. In See also:

Hungary it was applied to a class of See also:

MERCENARY (Lat. mercenarius, from merces, reward, gain)

mercenary See also:

FOOT

foot-soldiers of Magyar stock. In 16o5 these haiduks were rewarded for their fidelity to the See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant party (see HUNGARY: See also:

HISTORY

History) with titles of See also:

NOBILITY

nobility and territorial rights over a See also:

DISTRICT

district situated on the See also:

LEFT

left See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

RIVER

river See also:

THEISS (Hungarian, Tisza; Lat., Tisia or Tissus)

Theiss, known thenceforward as the Haiduk region. This was enlarged in 1876 and converted into the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of Hajdu (Ger. Hajduken). Hajdu is also a See also:

COMMON

common prefix in Hungarian, See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place-names, e.g. Hajdu-Szoboszl5, Hajdu-Namas. In See also:

Austria-Hungary, See also:

Germany, See also:

Poland, Sweden and some other countries, haiduk came to mean an attendant in a See also:

court of See also:

law,or a male servant, dressed in Hungarian semi-military See also:

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