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Matrak is an Ottoman combat sport based on sword and shield fighting, Invented by the Ottoman Bosnian statesman, historian and scientist Nasuh Matrakčija Visočak (full name in Turkish: Nasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Bosnavî) in the 16th century.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 9 relations: Combat sport, Janissary, Lawn game, Matrakçı Nasuh, Melee, Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire, Ten-pin bowling.

  2. Combat sports
  3. Lawn games
  4. Sports originating in Turkey
  5. Turkish games

Combat sport

A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat. Matrak and combat sport are combat sports.

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Janissary

A janissary (yeŋiçeri) was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops.

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Lawn game

A lawn game is an outdoor game that can be played on a lawn. Matrak and lawn game are lawn games.

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Matrakçı Nasuh

Nasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Visokavi el-Bosnavî, commonly known as Matrakçı Nasuh for his competence in the combat sport of Matrak which was invented by himself, (also known as Nasuh el-Silâhî, Nasuh the Swordsman, because of his talent with weapons; 1480 – 1564) was a 16th-century Ottoman Bosnian statesman of the Ottoman Empire, polymath, mathematician, philosopher, teacher, historian, geographer, cartographer, swordmaster, navigator, inventor, painter, farmer, and miniaturist.

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Melee

A melee (or, French: mêlée) or pell-mell is disorganized hand-to-hand combat in battles fought at abnormally close range with little central control once it starts.

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Muhteşem Yüzyıl

Muhteşem Yüzyıl is a Turkish historical drama series.

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Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Ottoman Empire era of rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina (first as a ''sanjak'', then as an ''eyalet'') and Herzegovina (also as a ''sanjak'', then ''eyalet'') lasted from 1463/1482 to 1878 de facto, and until 1908 de jure.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Ten-pin bowling

Ten-pin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle.

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See also

Combat sports

Lawn games

Sports originating in Turkey

Turkish games

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrak