Matrak

{{Short description|Ottoman combat sport}}

{{Expand Turkish|date=May 2011|Matrak}}

Matrak is an Ottoman combat sport based on sword and shield fighting, Invented by the Ottoman Bosnian statesman,{{Cite journal |date=2004 |title=International Journal of Turkish Studies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X09pAAAAMAAJ |journal=International Journal of Turkish Studies |publisher=University of Wisconsin |volume=10 |issue=1–2 |pages=57 |quote=The famous Bosnian writer Nasuh Matrakci (d. 1564 in all likelihood) is represented by two manuscripts}} historian and scientist Nasuh Matrakčija Visočak (full name in Turkish: Nasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Bosnavî) in the 16th century.{{cite web|author1=Salim Ayduz|title=Nasuh Al-Matrakî, A Noteworthy Ottoman Artist-Mathematician of the Sixteenth Century|url=http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/nasuh-al-matrak%C3%AE-noteworthy-ottoman-artist-mathematician-sixteenth-century|website=muslimheritage.com|publisher=Muslim Heritage|accessdate=3 March 2015|language=en}}{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture |volume=2 |author1=Jonathan M. Bloom |author2=Sheila Blair |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2009 |page=49 |title=Nasuh Matrakci [Nasuh al-Silahi al-Matraqi; Nasuh ibn Qaragoz ibn 'Abdallah al-Busnawi] (b. Visoko, Bosnia...}}{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/480968 |title= The Ottoman Palace School Enderun and the Man with Multiple Talents, Matrakçı Nasuh, p. 23 |author1=Corlu, M. Sencer |author2=Burlbaw, Lynn M. |author3=Capraro, Robert M |author4=Corlu, M. Ali |author5=Han, Sunyoung |name-list-style=amp |work=Journal of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Series D: Research in Mathematical Education Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2010, 19–31 |date= January 2010 |publisher=Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA |accessdate=5 January 2013}} It is played with wooden sticks covered with leather simulating a sword, and a wooden leather covered shield. The top of the sticks are rounded and slightly wider than the body resembling bowling pins. The game is a kind of combat simulation, and is played on a lawn. It was used by Ottoman soldiers as practice for melee combat.

In the television series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, it is shown as a combat-game.