In the Ottoman Empire, the people of each millet had traditionally enjoyed a degree of autonomy, with their own leadership, collecting their own taxes and living according to their own system of religious/cultural law.
每一個米利特的人民傳統上享有一定自治權，有自己的領導層，族群內各自收稅，並根據自己的宗教/文化法律制度生活。