Editing Devshirme (section)

== Eunuchs ==
White [[eunuchs]] were sometimes recruited from among the devshirme.<ref name="duindam" /> Unlike the black eunuchs, who were usually castrated in their place of origin, the devshirme were castrated at the palace. The palace eunuchs who supervised them often came from the same background as the devshirme (the Balkans).<ref name="duindam" /> A considerable number of eunuchs of devshirme origin went on to hold important positions in the government and the military, and many of them became [[grand vizier]], like [[Hadım Ali Pasha]], [[Sinan Borovinić]], [[Hadım Hasan Pasha]], [[Hadim Mesih Pasha]] and [[Hadım Mehmed Pasha]]. Others, like [[Sofu Hadım Ali Pasha]], [[Hadım Şehabeddin]], [[Battle of Krbava Field|Hadım Yakup Pasha of Bosnia]], [[Siege of Eger (1552)|Hadım Ali Pasha of Buda]], [[Hadım Suleiman Pasha]] and his namesake [[Hadım Suleiman Pasha (governor of Rumelia)|Hadım Suleiman Pasha]], became prominent admirals and generals.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jefferson|first=John|title=The Holy Wars of King Wladislas and Sultan Murad: The Ottoman-Christian Conflict from 1438–1444|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpvqWWpUYSoC&pg=PA84|date=17 August 2012|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-21904-5|page=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Orientalski otdel|title=Inventory of Ottoman Turkish documents about Waqf preserved in the Oriental Department at the St. Cyril and Methodius National Library: Registers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4TPYAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Narodna biblioteka "Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ"|page=243|isbn=9789545230721 |quote=Sehabeddin Pasa, devshirme conscript.}}</ref>