An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania
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Finally a man of culture indeed. "As well all who supports Rome".
THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE.
I thought the North American colonies were entirely under english influence. I'm not entirly sure though. You do make very good points about the difficulty keeping the colonies united. Also yeah it would be extremely interesting to see Mega Brazil become a super power or perhaps even take over as the center of the Spanish empire like with what could have happened with the United kingdom of Portugal and Brazil. What's that colonies name ttl btw?
Well there's always the next war. Most likely the border that I presented on 256 of the thread will be the most likely border in the likelihood of rome not taking all of italy back.
Ehh as much as I like Lothringia I doubt they'll be in any position to take on Spain after the war of the Rhine even if they win
The zeng in Australia? That's far fetched bruh, not possible for them to go there. They dislike naval stuff because of what the Roman ship lords are doing. Besides their a land based empire, and they don't have the stomach to make their homeland fall to the steeps nomads ever again.
How are the Turks in the Ottoman Empire dealing with being relegated to second class citizens next to the Persians? I know people here are wishing for another Tamerlane against the Turks, but I can't help but think that they'd be a rather useful destabilizing force against Ibrahim. They do have that Ottoman Prince at their disposal if I remember correctly, a Rhoman protectorate of Turkish Syria with an 'Ottoman Komnenid' prince would be a major boon I'd feel.
So it seems like the fall of the Maranids to europe in the not too distant future seems inevitable imo. Eventually It will get to the point where allowing the pirates to continue sabotaging valuable trade through the Mediterranean may become more expensive than wiping them out. Perhaps we could see it partitioned by Spain, Arles, Rhomania and perhaps even Aragon and the Isles. I predict this could happen around the time the ttl version of the Suez Canal shows up making the trade in the Mediterranean far more lucrative.
I wasn't aware they were treated as second class citezens. I just thought Persians had more power overall. From my understanding its more just bitterness of the Turks not being in the power seat despite it being their empire. I could definitely see it leading to a perminant separation though
Of course! Obviously I'm pro-Roman here, and Italy is a solid foundation to a Fortress Europa strategy for the Roman sphere, but I'm still convinced that Prague is really the final target for a perfect Fortress Europa. Probably not going to happen short of another German War though I expect, and it'd require someone Constantinople can support.
Roman Italy however would be a great flank, the question being whether or not Arles will be driven closer, or away.
I say they entice Arles by letting them take a big chunk of Lombardy
And isn't it convenient, from the point of view of Constantinople at least, that the population of the empire at least in the core territories tends to be overwhelmingly Greek with other ethnic groups trending to assimilate to it? Now you could try to get into differences between Roman and Greek but that's splitting hair as in effect the two can be used interchangeably at this point, very much like OTL.
It's not an accident that none other than Theodore II Lascaris is writing in his surviving mail of their Greek ancestors, the achievements of Greek valor in his campaigns against the Bulgarians or how the army must be based on Greeks as only they can help the "hellenikon"
I think it's a bad deal your inviting someone untrustworthy and a latin to boot. Besides them being a latin their nobles are easily enticed by the triunes, unless Arles kills or destroy the triune faction in Arles they can't be trusted ever. A fully unified Italy under Roman control is the only way to ensure that Rome's western european flank will totally be secured. They already got the Belgrade pact controlling Vienna and Vlachian Gallicia, they got to take the mountain borders in the alps to finally make it ironclad secure. Now the Po is indeed a good defensive border like the old roman republic border around the 1st punic wars, but as we all know securing the alps is an even better cause that safeguards central Italy.
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Yeah, the Eastern Seaboard is one of the most productive and economically suitable regions on the planet.
Shame the mid-Atlantic houses some of the least-inspiring natural beauty on the continent. I shit you not, I’m a New Yorker and I’ll be the first to admit that our Tri-State area is the ugliest grouping of states in the country.
Italy at this point has a population in the order of 12-13 million minimum, probably higher TTL. The core territories of the empire are 18 million. Even granting that roughly a third of the Italian population is the despotate of Sicily how exactly is the empire supposed to integrate a 50% increase of its population?
I can’t believe I as a southerner am going to have to defend yankeedom but upstate New York (Adirondacks, Hudson Valley; Fingerlakes) and PA mountains can be absolutely beautiful. Now New Jersey on the other hand. . .