I followed a link from another site to this defintion: Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Millet (Ottoman Empire)
Just out of interest I looked at the wikipedia entry for Millet [Ottoman Empire] . It used exactly the same words, with a bit of extra padding.
eg Reference.com :
Millet (Ottoman Empire)
Millet (stress on the e) is an Ottoman Turkish term for a legally protected religious minority. It comes from the Arabic word milla for confessional community. The Arabic term is a very general one.
Wikipedia:
Millet (stress on the e) is an Ottoman Turkish term for a legally protected religious minority. It comes from the Arabic word milla for confessional community. The Arabic term is a very general one, the Jewish neighbourhoods in Morocco and Tunisia were named mellah.
Isn’t this something called ‘copyright violation’? Where are the RIAA when you need them??