Sipahi (Ottoman Turkish: سپاهی; also transliterate as Spahi, Sepahi, and Spakh; traditionally rendered as Spahia or Spahiu in Albanian, and Spahija - Cyrillic спахиjа, спахия - in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian) was the name of an Ottoman cavalry corps. In the form of "Spahi" it was the title given to several cavalry units serving in the French and Italian colonial armies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.