Palace School

The palace school is part of the Ottoman system, designed to educate the country's management elite. The palace school had two directions. The first is the madrasah ( osm. Medrese) for Muslims , which trained scholars and government officials in accordance with Islamic traditions. The second direction is Enderun’s closed boarding school for converted Christians ( osm. Enderûn), which annually recruited 3,000 students from guys aged 8 to 20, one person from every 40 Christian families of Rumelia and / or the Balkans - in accordance with the law on devshirme ( osm. Devşirme) ^[1] .