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What a great map! Hope it whets everybody's appetite for the next chapter. As for Paris and the Khanates: get reading!

All being well, C28 plus map should be posted here tomorrow evening (GMT). I'll hope for lots of comments!

I reckon this is exactly right, for what it's worth. The West was NEVER a priority for Constantinople- see how Justinian dropped Italy in the 540s, Heraclius abandoned the Balkans in the 610s, Constantine IV leaving Italy in the 670s, Leo III again ignoring Italy... I'm on a smartphone and...

Thanks for the nice words! I think I would agree with you re spaced updates... and hopefully the delay on substantive new chapters from my teasing to the release of C28 has given people ample time to read back through the TL. My vague thoughts for an upcoming release schedule, with once new...

Ahh yes- I think the issue might be the reformatting of the board during my hiatus from AH.com, which has made things go a little odd. As mentioned above, drop me a PM if you'd like a PDF of the full timeline for easier reading!

I'm okay, thanks! Yes- the Georgian and Armenian principalities are loosely affliated client states of Rhomania, after revolting against Jurchen hegemony in the 1290s. The difficult terrain of the area, however, makes the imposition of more direct Roman rule tricky, and will become a running...

C29 complete- at 3200 words plus footnotes, it's a lengthy one. I think my aim is, now I've got a couple of chapters in hand and an apparent zeal to write (which experience tells me will die off at some point, sadly) I'm going to aim to publish every other week until I'm out of content again...

Thanks guys- that's interesting. If either of you are at all active on there, and would like to post an IE chapter (crediting me of course!) to test the water for interest, please go ahead :) I've made really good progress on 29 today, and I'm more enthusiastic about IE than I've been in...

First I've heard of Space Battles: what is it?

I've edited and tightened up Chapter 28 (just need to think of a name and starting quote). Now beginning Chapter 29- so even if I hibernate again until 2025, we can at least guarantee the story will reach the 1340s!

I've put the whole TL so far into a PDF format, if anybody would like it for easy reading on a smartphone or whatever. If this is of interest, please PM me with your email address, and I'll send it across!

Chapter 28 is complete. I'm going to hold on for the new map before publishing, though, to give everybody a chance to see what's where in the world of IE's 1330s. One bit of fun I've had when writing is suppressing my desire to call the Balearics in IE the "naked islands"- see here. In the...

I'd love this!

An Ethnographic Survey of Rhōmanía in 1330: Part Three Syria: The generic term “Syria” covers roughly from Damaskos in the south to the Tauros, and encompasses the ancient region of Kilikia. The rule of Rhōmanía in this province has been established now, on and off, for the better part of four...

Thanks! :)

An Ethnographic Survey of Rhōmanía in 1330: Part Two Boulgaria: The first area of Rhōmanía we come to with both a direct imperial administration and large numbers of non-Roman subjects. Boulgaria is an ethnic patchwork, though dominated by Sklavenic speakers. The imperial authorities are most...

What we'd call modern Greek- but which certainly by 1250 IOTL, and in all all probability for centuries beforehand, had become known as Romaiika- or "the tongue of the Romans". In the IE universe, as the language continues to evolve, you'll end up with Attic Greek being called "the tongue of...

Will respond to interesting comments later- this is really useful stuff, thank you. For now... whilst the narrative update for Chapter 28 continues, I've started work on this piece- hopefully it'll be of interest and spark some discussion! An Ethnographic Survey of Rhōmanía in 1330: Part One...

Oh, and I'm about 1/5 of the way through Chapter 28.

Thanks for your interesting comments... I'll take them into account! Now, to your questions. What you've got in France is not so much an Anglo-French union as a Norman dynasty ruling England plus most of the OTL Angevin Empire in France, and other French territories. This has, unsurprisingly...