72 - Al-Sultan Al-Azam
Dec 28, 2025
The second reign of Keyhüsrev begins in Konya. The court in Konya exerts its power over Anatolia, and with the Great Seljuk Empire gone, the Roman Sultan takes upon himself the mantle of the sole…
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71 - Sadly, After
Nov 18, 2025
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…
70 - (New) Roman Holiday
Oct 22, 2025
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…
69 - The Sword of Enmity
Sep 13, 2025
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…
68 - The Wandering Sultan
Aug 11, 2025
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…
67 - A Great and Furious Downpour
Jul 07, 2025
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…
66 - The Kingdom of Heaven
Jun 18, 2025
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…
65 - The Man Who Lived Too Long
May 31, 2025
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…
64 - Myriokephalon
May 10, 2025
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…
63 - Seven Against Konya
Apr 21, 2025
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…
62 - The Lion of the Mountain
Apr 10, 2025
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…
61 - The Sultan in Constantinople
Mar 24, 2025
Kılıç Arslan II finds him surrounded by enemies on all sides, as the Sultanate of Rum faces an existential war against enemies in the West, the East, the North, and the South. To end the war, the…
60 - The Limping Lion
Mar 04, 2025
After the death of Mesud, his son Kılıç Arslan II succeeds him as the next Sultan of Rum. However, the succession of the second Sword Lion to the throne is not bloodless. A series of murders in…
59 - Goodbye Mesud
Feb 17, 2025
The aging Mesud organizes his new conquests on the southern marches of Anatolia into a new satrapy run from Elbistan, and sets up his son and favored successor, Kılıç Arslan II, as its ruler. A new…
58 - The Light of the Faith
Feb 02, 2025
Mesud returns to Konya triumphant after mauling the Second Crusade, and a new power arises in Syria as Nüreddin Zengi succeeds his father to take over the Zengid Emirate. After the broken Second…
57 - The Flowers of France
Jan 19, 2025
After destroying the German crusading army of King Conrad III, Mesud turns his forces against the French crusaders led by King Louis VII. After an initial loss to the French in the Meander valley…
56 - Return to Dorylaeum
Jan 01, 2025
The fall of Edessa to Imad al-Din Zengi sparks the Second Crusade. Two great crusading armies assemble in Western Europe - a German army led by King Conrad III and a French army led by King Louis…
55 - The Hunters of Men
Dec 18, 2024
Following the death of the Danishmend King Muhammad, Mesud is finally the pre-eminent Turkish potentate in Anatolia. With the Sultanate of Rum rejuvenated, he now sets out to conquer. Meanwhile, a…
54 - King or Sultan?
Nov 25, 2024
The messengers from the Caliph in Baghdad and Sanjar, the Great Sultan of the East, arrive in Kastamonu to find that Emir Ghazi has died before they could proclaim him as King. Instead, his son…
53 - The King of the North
Nov 12, 2024
With Mesud installed on the throne of the Sultanate of Rum in Konya, his father-in-law, the Danishmend Bey Emir Ghazi rises to become the overlord of Turkish Anatolia. Emir Ghazi brings the…
52 - Swarms of Mice
Oct 28, 2024
Following the peace treaty signed with Emperor Alexios Komnenos, the Sultan of Rum Şahinşah begins marching back to Konya. But he does not make it far before being confronted by his half brother…
51 - The Imperial Cloak
Oct 07, 2024
Following the death of Kılıç Arslan, the Sultanate of Rum falls into disorder and becomes eclipsed by the other beyliks, in particular the Danishmend Beylik to the east ruled by Emir Ghazi. The…
50 - Like Father, Like Son
Sep 14, 2024
As the western half of the Great Seljuk Empire continues to collapse, a string of fortuitous events dramatically improves Kılıç Arslan's position. Like his father before him, the Sword Lion decides…
49 - The Silver Prince
Aug 01, 2024
Following the Turkish victory over the Crusade of 1101, Kılıç Arslan's position as the leading Turkish potentate in Anatolia is secured, and the Sultanate of Rum is re-established. But the rebirth…
48 - Merzifon
Jul 13, 2024
The Sultanate of Rum lies in ruins following the destruction of the First Crusade and the loss of Western Anatolia to the Byzantine Empire. The Danishmend Beylik led by Gümüştegin Ghazi takes up the…
47 - The White City
Jun 21, 2024
In the aftermath of the catastrophic Crusader invasion of Anatolia, while the Turks are in crisis, Emperor Alexios Komnenos launches a reconquest. An army led by John Doukas retakes the Aegean coast…
46 - Dorylaeum
May 28, 2024
Following the fall of İznik, Kılıç Arslan regroups his forces, belatedly calling for aid from across Turkish Anatolia. The Crusaders depart from İznik and begin their march to the Holy Land. Kılıç…
45 - The Fall of İznik
May 15, 2024
The crusading army marches into a completely undefended Anatolia and right up to the walls of İznik, the capital of the Sultanate of Rum. Finally waking up to the danger, Kılıç Arslan makes a deal…
44 - The Pyramid of Bones
Apr 25, 2024
The People's Crusade invades Anatolia, and the chaotic army of undisciplined peasants is easily destroyed by the forces of the Sultanate of Rum under Ilhan Bey as Kılıç Arslan besieges Malatya. But…
43 - Deus Vult
Apr 16, 2024
As Turkish power is entrenched across Anatolia and Kılıç Arslan consolidates the power of the Sultanate of Rum, in Constantinople Emperor Alexios Komnenos calls for aid from the West. The Emperor…