Whereas a great many of the 17,000 and 19,000 Ottoman soldiers in
service in the Ottoman fortresses in the territory of present-day
Hungary were Orthodox and Muslim Balkan Slavs. Southern Slavs were also acting as akıncıs and other light troops intended for pillaging in the territory of present-day Hungary.
There were approximately 80,000 Muslim settlers in Ottoman-controlled territory of present-day Hungary; being mainly administrators, soldiers, artisans and merchants of Bosnian Slavic origin, and gradually growing in number throughout the 16th century.
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