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continued to maintain their own liveried bodyguards of hajduks, well into the 18th century as something of a throwback to the past, even though they were now rarely used as field troops. In imitation of these bodyguards, in the 18th century wealthy members of the
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Contrary to popular opinion, the small axe they often wore tucked in their belt (not to be confused with the huge half-moon shaped bardiche axe, which was seldom carried by hajduks) was not a combat weapon, but rather was intended for cutting wood.
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in the 1570s, and who formed the backbone of the Polish infantry arm from the 1570s until about the 1630s. Unusually for this period, Polish-Lithuanian hajduks wore
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hired liveried domestic servants who they called hajduks, thereby creating the meaning of the term 'hajduk' as it is generally understood in modern Polish.
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from Hungarian in the late 16th century. It was initially a colloquial term for a style of footsoldier, Hungarian or Turco-
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In the mid 17th century hajduk-style infantry largely fell out of fashion in Poland-Lithuania, and were replaced by
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Mercenary units and formations of the Early Modern era
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Polish language
Balkan
Stephen Báthory
uniforms
matchlock
arquebus
sabre
pikes
polearms
musket
hetmans
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
szlachta
"berdysz - English translation - bab.la Polish-English dictionary"
Richard Brzezinski
Angus McBride
Categories
Military history of Poland
Mercenary units and formations of the Early Modern era

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