Editing Music of Turkey (section)

=== Military music ===
{{Main|Ottoman military band}}
[[File:Surname-ı Vehbi (fol. 172a).jpg|thumb|upright|Surname-i Vebbi (fol. 172a), showing military band.]]

The Janissary bands or ''[[Mehter]]'' are considered to be the oldest type of military marching band in the world.<ref name="military">{{cite web|url=http://www.militarymusic.com/200302.htm#anchor5|title=Ottoman Military Music|work=MilitaryMusic.com|access-date=February 11, 2003 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030222130546/http://www.militarymusic.com/200302.htm#anchor5 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = February 22, 2003}}</ref> Individual instrumentalists were mentioned in the [[Orhun inscriptions]], which are believed to be the oldest written sources of Turkish history, dating from the 8th century. However, they were not definitively mentioned as bands until the 13th century. The rest of Europe borrowed the notion of military marching bands from Turkey from the 16th century onwards.