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The English and the French arrive in the Levant to contest the rule of the Holy Land with the Ayyubid Sultanate. The Third Crusade sees some of the most vicious fighting and brilliant generalship of…
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70 - (New) Roman Holiday
After being driven from Konya, Keyhüsrev flees to Constantinople. The once and future Roman Sultan bides his time in the New Rome, marrying and fathering a child, while a great fleet sets sail in th…
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69 - The Sword of Enmity
The first reign of Keyhüsrev begins. But while the young Sultan struggles to hold Western Anatolia, his half-brother Sulayman II seizes the initiative in the East, driving Keyhüsrev from Konya. Sulay…
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68 - The Wandering Sultan
In the aftermath of the disaster of the march of the Third Crusade across Anatolia, the Sultanate of Rum falls apart. The elderly Sultan of Rum is forced to wander across Anatolia seeking aid to ret…
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67 - A Great and Furious Downpour
The Holy Roman Emperor crosses the Dardanelles into Anatolia expecting to find a friend on the throne in Konya. But while Sultan Kılıç Arslan II desires peace and alliance, the wild tribes and certa…
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66 - The Kingdom of Heaven
Saladin consolidates power throughout Syria and northern Iraq, becoming the greatest power in the Muslim world and strangling Outremer. After a crusader provocation, he assembles a great army and ma…
Published on 5 months ago
65 - The Man Who Lived Too Long
After the battle of Myriokephalon, Kılıç Arslan II consolidates Seljuk rule of Anatolia. The Sultan of Rum negotiates with the rising power of Saladin, and conquers further in the West after the dea…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
64 - Myriokephalon
With Kılıç Arslan II consolidating his power over Anatolia, Emperor Manuel Komnenos sets out to reverse the verdict of Manzikert. The Imperial Armies move on to the plateau to rebuild Dorylaeum, and…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
63 - Seven Against Konya
As the Danishmend Beylik falls into crisis, Kılıç Arslan II sets out to conquer Anatolia. But fearful of the growing power of the Sultan of Rum, Nüreddin Zengi, the greatest force in the Muslim worl…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
62 - The Lion of the Mountain
In Anatolia, Kılıç Arslan II rides East to confront Yağıbasan and begin the reconquest of Anatolia. He makes an alliance with the Saltukid Bey İzzeddin, whose beylik has been raiding Georgia since M…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago