the story
still about the previous theme, the ottomans.
... They concoted a bizzare story of emasculating the enemy to turn the Ottomans into the legitimate hers of the Seljuks, thereby distancing themselves from the Mongols and Ghazan Khan, to whom Osman actually owed his liege. They related that one field of battle was known as 'The Plain of Testicles' because the victorious Seljuks cut the testicles off the defeated Mongols troops, sewed the skins together, covered them with felt, and made tent awnings out of them...
yes that sentence exists in a real chronicler. yes the name stuck in some retellings. they call it the taşak ovası.
damn!
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