The Timeline

Five monuments are jumbled up. Put them in order with the oldest at the top. Use the arrows, then press Check.

Round 1

Best: —

The oldest should be number 1.

None of the dates in this game is made up. The years come from the book Kültürel Miras Boyutuyla Amasya and from the sources on the stop pages. Monuments on which the sources disagree (for example the Halifet Gazi Tomb or the Çağlayan Bridge) were left out of this game altogether — because we cannot mark as “wrong” something that has no certain answer. Their story is on their own stop pages.

The guest of the celebration

Tulpar: the winged horse

Tulpar is the flying horse peculiar to Turkic culture. The stories usually describe it as a white or a black horse, all of one colour; it has white wings. According to the stories, God (Kuday) created it to help the brave. Get five out of five and it will fly for you in the sky over Amasya.

The horse of heroesOnly the brave, the alps and the bahadırs (warrior heroes) can ride Tulpar.
Hidden wingsIn Bashkir belief it opens its wings only in the dark, when crossing great obstacles; if anyone sees its wings, Tulpar disappears.
In the epicsIn the Manas epic they are the horses of Manas's famous warriors, said to run faster than the wind with their wings. Köroğlu's Kırat is one of the best-known examples of this type of horse.

Tulpar does not appear in the collections of Amasya legends we have; here it flies only for the celebration. The Tulpar here is an illustration made with AI (Google Gemini). On a slow connection or offline, a drawing made for this site appears instead; in the drawing, the outline of the horse's body comes from Eadweard Muybridge's photograph of 1887 (public domain). Source: Serdar Gürçay, “Mitolojilerde Uçan At Motifi Üzerine Karşılaştırmalı Bir Çalışma” [A Comparative Study on the Flying Horse Motif in Mythologies], Aydın Türklük Bilgisi Dergisi 5/8 (Bahar 2019), 47, 49-50.

Finding it hard?

The type under a monument's name gives a clue: Seljuk-period buildings are mostly tombs and madrasas, while the rising Ottoman period is dominated by mosques and complexes.
Personal names help: titles such as “Kapı Ağası” (Agha of the Gate) and “Paşa” point to the Ottomans, names like “Torumtay” to the Seljuks.
Once you have checked, each monument's real year and a link to its stop page appear. Read up there and come back.