AH Challenge: Crusader Mesopotamia

HueyLong

Banned
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have a Crusader State control the bulk of Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates) with a POD after 1096 (the calling of the First Crusade).

The amount of time they rule doesn't matter, but they must legitimately control the area.
 

Nikephoros

Banned
This one is kind of ASB,

During the 1st Crusade an ambitious lord decides to send his army to Baghdad. He manages to hold the city for a few days but gets kicked out.

That's only one city though. I don't know how to get the bulk of Mesopotamia though.
 
An outbreak of plague causes the Caliphate to crumble, and Crusaders spread like rats to valuable places in the former empire, snatching them up. Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Muscate Coast, and Hijaz are examples of new Crusader states.
 
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