Event
A Persianate Bureaucracy
Through the Great Seljuks in days of old, our state has inherited an important legacy from Persia, and our bureaucrats write in the Persian language and style. However, our Greek subjects would like to see this changed, and for our governance to instead look to the example provided by Byzantium, and bureaucratic documents to be written in Greek. Such a radical reform would be sure to anger the Turkish tribes in our domain, since they value the Persian heritage and connect it with great prestige.
OttomansCountrydynamic historical event.tagGreekCultureoption 1, option 2, option 3Definitionin_game/events/DHE/flavor_TUR.txt:1991
1992type = country_event
1993title = flavor_tur.33.title A Persianate Bureaucracy
1994desc = flavor_tur.33.desc Through the Great Seljuks in days of old, our state has inherited an important legacy from Persia, and our bureaucrats write in the Persian language and style. However, our Greek subjects would like to see this changed, and for our governance to instead look to the example provided by Byzantium, and bureaucratic documents to be written in Greek. Such a radical reform would be sure to anger the Turkish tribes in our domain, since they value the Persian heritage and connect it with great prestige.
1995outcome = neutral
1996fire_only_once = yes
1998dynamic_historical_event = {
}
2005historical_info = flavor_tur.33.historical_info The early Ottomans modeled their state on their Persianized Seljuk predecessors, adopting key administrative and bureaucratic practices that had been refined under centuries of Persianate influence. As a result, official documents, court records, and even state correspondence were primarily written in Persian, which served as the language of governance and high culture across much of the Islamic world. This practice reflected the deep imprint of the Seljuk administrative system, where Persian bureaucrats and scribes had long played a crucial role in managing state affairs. While Turkish remained the language of the military elite and Arabic was used for religious and legal matters, Persian functioned as the primary medium of statecraft, diplomacy, and literature in the early decades of the Beylik.
2007trigger = {
2008culture_percentage_in_country(culture:greek_culture) > 0
2009culture_percentage_in_country(culture:turkish_culture) > 0
}