Great Turkish War (Principia Moderni IV Map Game)

The Great Turkish War, alternatively known as the Great Crusade, the Last Crusade, or the Last Jihad, was a military conflict between the Tsardom of Belka and various Muslim powers over control of the Anatolian peninsula. The Ottoman Empire had existed as an isolated Turkish state for many years after the Mamluk and Gurkani Sultanates had been destroyed, and after 1570 had become a vassal of the Abbasid Caliphate. Belka, originally the Tsardom of Bulgaria, founded its nation on the crusader principles to liberate Europeans of Muslim domination, as the wars of Vasili the Impaler pushed the Ottomans out of Greece in the late 15th century. Although largely inconclive, the war broke up the Ottoman Empire, as well as leaving many other lasting legacies on both Europe and the Middle East.