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Still, im pretty sure by that time, the Greenland route would've been easily rediscovered wouldn't it?

Ah schism, an ever present thorn in any Basileus and Aftokrator. Iconoclasm, Monothelitism, union with the Pope, and now secularism.

Apologies in advance if this one was a bit choppy, I cut it out of a larger update segment...

Seems like the ripples of the Mongols Eastern Campaigns have come as the Cumans starts to move westward?

"I often ask myself how the world would look had Romanos 'Perete' [1] not reformed great Rome has he did. Perhaps we might all be under...

But with the coming Mongol invasion of Russia, there is the opportunity to reestablish the Varangians with a bunch of hardened Rus with...

"general of absolutely no historical consequence named Mikhael Kantakouzenos Philanthropenos" Hmmm, I wonder. 🤔

Part X: Fish of Bronze (1467-1468) The life of Ahmed ‘the Red’ had been a rough one. Born an illegitimate son of the Çandarid bey, he...

The Soldier-King A depiction of King Federico I in the 1770s, wearing a Prussian-inspired military coat in the black and red colors of...

Part IX: The Struggle for Regency (1466-1467) After the coronation of Alexandros II, the question that dominates the rule of all...

1218 - In April, after years of fermentation despite the efforts of John Grypas and his skilled lieutenants, a largescale revolt would...

Wait, wouldn't the Imperial Fleet blockade Trebizond? And also I'm not seeing how Dioceretes wouldn't get slaughter by the citizens of...

1216 - Tensions were rising in the Anatolia once more; as the fact that the Seljuk Sultan, Arslan III, had effectively broken the...

Part VII: Succession The reign of Alexandros I had seen the Trapezuntine Empire dramatically reformed and expanded. The power of the...

@Noblesse Oblige, @Paschalis Constantinople did indeed fall in 1453, but under slightly different circumstances. Butterflies killed...