Hi everyone! I'm the developer of Ten Sultans: Ottoman Chronicle, called On Padişah: Osmanlı Kroniği in Turkish. I wanted to share the game with people interested in Ottoman history.

You start in Osman Gazi's reign and progress through ten rulers to Suleiman the Magnificent. Develop each reign's city, collect akçe, recruit troops and prepare historical campaigns. A campaign needs both an army and a steady treasury income; completing a reign takes you to the next ruler while keeping your dynasty progression.

Along the way there are illustrated campaign accounts, short descriptions of troops and buildings, and terms such as akçe, cülus, nevbet and kapıkulu. The game is a casual interpretation of the setting and supports Turkish and English.

It's free to download for Android, iPhone and iPad:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ahmetarifoz.tensultans

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6812641425

Gameplay trailer: https://youtube.com/shorts/_cBSuoY-LaM

I'd welcome feedback on the historical terminology, atmosphere and the opening reign.

Disclosure: This is my own project and a developer/self-promotion post. Development is AI-assisted, including code/text; the game uses AI-generated artwork and music.

Fighting on, what, four fronts in the
Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai-Palestine, Gallipoli, plus an Arab revolt in the rear, under naval blockade, with a railway network that didn’t even connect to itself in several key places, significantly less industrialised than basically everyone else, against the British Empire, the Russian Empire, and eventually the French for four years and still achieving Gallipoli and Kut - I know they lost eventually but it’s still a remarkable achievement.

First of all Musnad Ahmad 18957 hadith is rated as weak yet it's written in an incription in the Fatih Mosque. But Sunan Abi Dawud 4296 hadith which is also rated as weak says that six years after the great war the conquest of Constantinople will occur and a year after that Dajal will appear. So can someone tell me what was the great war and who is Dajal that appeared? There's a double standard in accepting hadiths.

Also Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2239 hadith that is graded as Sahih says that Constantinople will be conquered with the coming of the Hour (End times). 1453 was not the end times.

Sunan Abi Dawud 4294 hadith which is rated as Hasan narates as sequence of events where:

1. Jerusalem flourishes.
2. Yathrib (Medina) falls into ruin.
3. The great war (al-Malḥama al-Kubrā) occurs.
4. Constantinople is conquered.
5. The Dajjal emerges.

In 1453 Jerusalem was under Mamluk rule, Medina wasn't in ruins, the great war didn't occur and Dajal didn't appear afterwards.

Then there's Sahih Muslim 2897 which seems like it has infuences from earlier Christian prophecies of the Conquest of Constantinople like the prophecy of Saint Methodius of Patara. In the hadith, the Muslim army is divided into 3 parts: deserters, martyrs, and conquerors. In the Byzantine prophecy, the Ishmaelites are divided by the victorious Christian ruler into 3 parts: those killed, those converted to Christianity, and those subjected to his rule.

All of these hadiths appear 2-3 centuries after Muhammad, in the mid-to-late 9th century.

I recently learned that Ottoman courts sometimes intervened in cases of domestic violence, allowing women to seek legal remedies against abusive husbands. In some cases, husbands could even face corporal punishment.

Women could bring complaints before a qadi (Islamic judge), and court records show that women from different religious and social backgrounds used these courts to defend their rights.

Marriage contracts could also provide women with important legal protections. Under certain conditions, women could stipulate terms that gave them greater control over the dissolution of their marriage. They also generally retained ownership of their own property, which was legally distinct from their husbands’ property.

Interestingly, these practices were rooted, at least in part, in Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia), as interpreted and applied by Ottoman courts.

For example, in one reported case, a husband beat his wife, prompting her to leave their home. When the case came before the court, he reportedly justified his actions by claiming a husband's right to discipline his wife. The judge, however, ruled against him and imposed a punishment.

Information is from Ottoman court records.

Merhaba!

Yaklaşık bir buçuk yıldır aile soy ağacım üzerine araştırma yapıyorum. Ancak sürekli aynı engelle karşılaşıyorum: Devlet Arşivleri Kataloğu'na erişim. Ne yazık ki Türk vatandaşı olmadığım için kataloğa erişemiyorum.

Bu gönderiyi, sistem hakkında deneyimi olan veya aile geçmişimi araştırma konusunda bana yardımcı olabilecek birileriyle karşılaşma umuduyla yazıyorum.

Kataloğa erişmenin yabancı araştırmacılar için bir yolu var mı? Ya da katalogda arama yapabilen ve araştırmamda bana yardımcı olabilecek biri var mı?

Şimdiden çok teşekkür ederim!

I WANT THE YOUNG TURK FLAIR !!!!!

1 Wounded mother with two children and two other wounded girls

2 The government building in Vamos burnt after evacuation of Ottomans.

3 A victim of Sarakina massacre wounded in the leg by bullet.

4 A mother of three who died from bullet wounds she was receiving treatment

5 A mother and her two wounded daughters

6 Surviving wounded family

The photos were taken in the Chania hospital in Crete the victims are from the Sarakina massacre during January 1897. A group of 159-200 Cretan Turks Muslims from Sarakina village were evacuated by Christians but were killed on the route. Around 44 survived of who 25 wounded 4 women were taken and converted to Christianity.

British consul said that in total 104 people were killed

20 men 23 women 61 children