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What is the millet system?

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Commonly, millet was defined as a “religious community.” Millet has its roots in early Islam, and the Ottomans used it to give minority religious communities within their Empire limited power to regulate their own affairs, under the overall supremacy of the Ottoman administration.

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Millet system was a more local system of laws in the private sector under the Ottoman rule in the Ottoman empire, where the population was allowed to govern itself according to their own religion (even Christian or Jewish).
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