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Welp, I wanted to post in this thread when it was first opened, but then I forgot about it completely. I think I can contribute a little in discussing alternate architecture and painting. This post of mine is very much inspired by the TL in my signature "And all Nations Shall Gather to It"...

Depends on the POD. One of my favoritos is Lyon, the former Roman capital of G. Lugdunensis, and it connects north and south of Gaul by the Rhone.

@ByzantineMan - Thanks for the compliment! Let's see what's in store for the Byzantines. Manuel is an interesting character, I hope I'm doing him justice in this portrayal. You are right about Cyprus. I see the phrase was poorly worded, what I meant is that these are Muslim pirates that might...

59. PROLEGOMENA OF MANUEL'S WAR Contemporary portrait of Basileus Manuel I Komnenos (c. 1180 A.D.) I. Of the Liaisons and Struggles of the Komnenoi and the Fāṭimīds Ever since their beginnings, the political relations between the Fāṭimīds and the Komnenoi had been complicated, to say the...

Replying to the posts of pages 120 to 122: @TyranicusMaximus - like an alternate Fourth Crusade? Let's see... counterfactual history should be even more unpredictable than factual history :biggrin: @Coyote_Waits - They will not, for the time being, actually. The fall of Norman Tunisia happens...

Replying to the posts of page 119: About the Cathars in the Outremer: I think its not very likely that they go as far as Jerusalem. And, even more, in the very Holy Land, they would be wiped out very quickly, perhaps even more than in France. But now that the Cathars have been brought as a...

Alright, guys, I'm still getting here... let's go for the replies of page 118. God, I feel like one of these YouTube celebrities with so many comments x'D @NotAMyth - well, in short, I too don't really find out it would be too plausible to see the Papacy become established in Jerusalem. They...

Now answering to the posts of page 117: @Talus I of Dixie - Very much correct about the Kurds. I likely overestimated the relevance of the Zengids or the Ayyubids to the Kurds. I see now that they didn't really made a difference for them as a people. @TickTock The Witch's Dead - Just remember...

Ok, sorry for the delay, guys. I've been kinda busy these latest days. This is some good news, I think, even more so because I've been writing a lot lately. I hope to a big update by the end of the week, but, as you know, I have some trouble with deadlines. In any event, I'll be replying to...

Alright, let's go for the replies of page 115. I've a lot of ground to catch up. Godspeed for me! @ImperialxWarlord - Manuel is a complex personage, with a lot of promise, but his mistakes late in life eventually undid all of his achievements. Lately, I've been reading a lot about him and about...

Hey, guys, just to make it clear: I'm not ignoring the ongoing discussions. I've been reading it all, in fact. However, as per my commitment to reply to all of the comments and questions the readers might post, I'm still in the way of catching up with all you guys have been tackling right now...

Hey, guys! I've been off some days since I posted. Literally, in this case, because I was without access to my notebook, and I hate perusing the Forum in mobile. Now, I'm back here to reply to the various posts after the latest installment. Let's see, from page 114: @ike225 @JohnSmith - Thanks...

LIX. THE WAR BETWEEN THE CRUSADERS Illumination depicting a battle between the Latin-Levantines in the War of 1161 with the crowned individual representing Prince Raymond II of Jerusalem and Galilee The capture of Raymond-Jordan and other Provençal and Bavarian nobles was an...

Hi, friends! First of all, I want to heartfully thank all of you for the kind words, for the support and the regards. Me and my wife have been living some better days since past year. We took this time to travel, to enjoy ourselves and our relatives and friends. Being together with people we...

I mean, its one of this things I find rather bizarre indeed. Why it seems that Latin is only Spanish and Portuguese (I suppose that this comes, IOTL, from the US's perspective in relation to the non-Anglophone nations). But it is a flawed and inconsistent distinction. If the criteria was to be...

It does deviates a bit from the OP, but what about a more successful and longer lived Nova Anglia in the Crimea, as a Byzantine protectorate? Too crazy?

I'm interested in this scenario. Getting Syagrius or Riothamus to establish an exile government in Britain could work, I suppose. But unless they form a new dynasty, they might not prevent polítical fragmentation.

Hey, my folks. There has been quite some time I don't post here, or in the Forum generally (although I like to enter sometimes to see the threads on the pre-1900 section). This time, here, I'm bringing some unfortunate news. Me and my wife had been expecting our first son since March, and he...

Llamas in the mountainous regions of Europe? Alps, Pyrenees, Haemus, etc. One possibility that fascinates me would be elephants being introduced in the Americas. How would they fare, specially in savannah-like climates such as the Cerrado and the North-American midwest?

Other poster, not me. But it was an interesting one nonetheless ;)