Título: Selim III
Seção: Reforms in law
Background: Selim III (Ottoman Turkish: slym thlth Selim-i salis) (24 December 1761 - 28 July 1808) was the reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. The Janissaries eventually deposed and imprisoned him, and placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne as Mustafa IV. Selim was subsequently killed by a group of assassins.

Conteúdo: Selim introduced domestic reforms to strengthen his government. He solicited suggestions throughout the governing institutions. As a basis for change: he created a new treasury, filled in large part from confiscatory punishment leveled at fief holders who had ceased to respect their military obligations, schools were opened, attention was given to printing and to the circulation of Western translations, and young Turks were sent to Europe for further study. The most significant reforms, however, involved the military. The navy was strengthened, and a navigation school was opened. The army commissariat was changed, officer training was improved, the Bosphorus forts were strengthened, the artillery was revitalized, and the new engineering school was reorganized. The major innovation was the founding of a new body of regular troops known as the Nizam-i-Cedid (new regulation), a term also applied to the reforms as a whole. A former Turkish lieutenant in the Russian army formed the first of these new units, uniformed, well disciplined and drilled, in 1792. Other units followed, involving, in some instances, extensive barracks building with related town facilities, such as the mosques and baths of Scutari. Such buildings constitute Selim's major architectural legacy.  Before the reforms, education in the Ottoman Empire had not been a state responsibility but had been provided by the education for Muslims. The first inroads into the system had been made with the creation of naval en

user: what was one of the laws that he reformed?

assistant: new treasury, filled in large part from confiscatory punishment leveled at fief holders who

user: was there another law that was reformed?

assistant: obligations, schools were opened, attention was given to printing and to the circulation of Western translations,

user: were there any more laws that were reformed?

assistant: the military.

user: how was the military reformed?

assistant: The navy was strengthened, and a navigation school was opened.

user: where was the school opened?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: how were the schools reformed?

assistant: complete system of primary and secondary schools leading to the university level, all under the Ministry of Education.

user: how else were the schools reformed?

assistant: 1869, provided for free and compulsory primary education.

user: were the schools reformed in any other way?

assistant: slowly because of a lack of money, but they provided a framework within which development toward a systematic,

user: what sort of framework?

assistant: secular educational program could take place.

user: did the framework involve anything else?

assistant: example of progress among the non-Muslim millet schools, in which the education provided

user: what did the education provide in the non Muslim millet schools?

assistant: pupils. Non-Muslims also used schools provided by foreign missionary groups in the empire

user: did anyone else use the schools besides the non Muslims?

assistant: 800 Armenian schools