In the Ottoman Empire, a millet (Turkish: [millet]; Ottoman Turkish: ملت) was an independent court of law pertaining to "personal law" under which a confessional...

were also present in the distant past (the most famous of them is the millet system of the Ottoman Empire), the modern understanding of non-territorial...

nineteenth century, ethnoreligious divisions were embodied by the Millets, a system of autonomous religious communities that allowed rulers to organize...

Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is an annual herbaceous plant widely grown as a cereal crop in the arid and semiarid areas in Africa and Asia. It is...

second-most widely planted species of millet, and the most grown millet species in Asia. The oldest evidence of foxtail millet cultivation was found along the...

proso millet, broomcorn millet, common millet, hog millet, Kashfi millet, red millet, and white millet. Archaeobotanical evidence suggests millet was first...

commonly called kodo millet or koda millet, is an annual grain that is grown primarily in Nepal (not to be confused with ragi (finger millet, Eleusine coracana))...

the beginning of the 20th century. Ottoman government introduced the millet system that granted a certain degree of autonomy to non-Islamic religious communities...

also held the position of Caliph. The social system was organized around the millet structure. The millet structure allowed a great degree of religious...

without restriction. The Ottomans developed a unique sociopolitical system known as the millet, which granted non-Muslim communities a large degree of political...