Crossword-Solution: REDIF 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The Moslems of Shabatz pay no taxes, either to the Servian government or the sultan, for they are accounted _Redif_, or Militia, for which they receive a ducat a year from the sultan, as a returning fee.

The castle, which occupies the centre, is on a slight eminence, and flanked with eight bastions; it contains no regular troops, but merely some _redif_, or militia.

Just above the spot where the men bivouacked was a lofty mound surmounted by a turret, from which an armed sentry of a regiment of redif (or militia) kept watch over the surrounding country.

The arrival of Dervisch Pacha with six battalions from Bieliki, which was now occupied by two battalions of redif, converted Gasko into the sole base of operations.

The Princess laughed and said in French: "That is the difference between professional and amateur--between Nizam and Redif--between Ahmed Pasha and our esteemed but very youthful attaché--who has much yet to learn about that endless war called Peace!" I didn't know what she meant, but Izzet Bey turned a bright scarlet, bowed again, and returned to the smoking room.