IF a Despotate is installed in Mesopotamia, and we don't know if it will because the eggs have only just been cracked we haven't even added the milk yet. It would behoove the Rhomanoi to set up upper and lower Mesopotamian governates, Kurdish and Turkish respectively. Have an Imperial mandate over two cities for military/admin/trade control, say Mosul and Basra. Be it that either both are mostly Muslim, or a mix as the area was historically a haven for Nestorians. It would help in weakening Iskander with the Turks as he is already seen as a Persianified Turk in some circles, and would give the Persians in his court more leverage to create doubt about their loyalty.
Are the Kurds at this time predominantly Muslim, or Christian in this era?
This new Mid-Egyptian state while having the basis for some serious success economically, I feel will have more than just a generation of time before they become something to truly respect. There are some disturbing under currents of religious unrest still, that could seriously jepordize the already "as bloody as the sword" Legitimacy Has sans Malikdom claims. Brass tax is he is a peasant warrior king the has used religious emancipation as his best weapon for success and now has to deal with the politics of the Immams and Mobads.
Are the Kurds at this time predominantly Muslim, or Christian in this era?
This new Mid-Egyptian state while having the basis for some serious success economically, I feel will have more than just a generation of time before they become something to truly respect. There are some disturbing under currents of religious unrest still, that could seriously jepordize the already "as bloody as the sword" Legitimacy Has sans Malikdom claims. Brass tax is he is a peasant warrior king the has used religious emancipation as his best weapon for success and now has to deal with the politics of the Immams and Mobads.
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