AHC: Thousand Years War

You would need to have periods of quiet (if for no other reason to allow populations and resources to recover to a point were war could be faught again) so the 1000 Years War would be a name given by hisorians rather than a factual count of actual years.

They already do that for the 100 Years War and the 80 Years War, so maybe in a few generations it will be considered the 1000 Years War, if perhaps only in popular histories.

Back when the 2003 Invasion of Iraq was forthcoming, I remember thinking that it seems that the more extreme nutcases on both side somehow have the idea that Christianity and Islam have been at war with each other since the Crusades. I could see a neo-con psuedo historian writing a book called the Thousand Year war crying out about how Islam is trying to destroy the West.

On a slightly less extreme front, Greece and Turkey's relations sometimes appear as if they have been having ups and downs which some far future historian might call the Thousand Years's War and date the war from the first Turkish incursions into Anatolia until whenever he deems they finally made peace. Heck, isn't it close enough to a 1000 years between the first arrival of the Turks until that treaty in 1921?
 
You would need to have periods of quiet (if for no other reason to allow populations and resources to recover to a point were war could be faught again) so the 1000 Years War would be a name given by hisorians rather than a factual count of actual years.

This. Multiple periods of wars between two countries (including their respective successor states) could be lumped together as the "thousand years' war", not unlike the HYW, which actually wasn't one war anyway (really, it was more like three).
 
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