Byzantine Egypt

[Alexius I Kommenos]

(Part of) what's great about a capital somewhere in the region of Constantinople is that it's within reach of both the Danube frontier and the eastern frontier. Putting the capital in Egypt means a central response can't reach the former quickly, which, though perhaps not a deal-breaker, is a notable disadvantage (if you're worried about Avars, Bulgars, etc.).

True but then again it depends what the ERE and it's focus is, the west or Africa and Anatolia, because you see I think it would be more worthwhile to make capital innEgypt because remember Egyp was the breadbasket of Rome and held the most manpower followed by Anatolia, so basically in the end it comes down to where Constantine wants to focus the barbaric west or the east....

 

[Cuāuhtemōc]

True but then again it depends what the ERE and it's focus is, the west or Africa and Anatolia, because you see I think it would be more worthwhile to make capital innEgypt because remember Egyp was the breadbasket of Rome and held the most manpower followed by Anatolia, so basically in the end it comes down to where Constantine wants to focus the barbaric west or the east....

Actually the Balkans I'm sure were the largest. A lot of Dacians were reported to serve in the Roman army.

 

[Alexius I Kommenos]

Actually the Balkans I'm sure were the largest. A lot of Dacians were reported to serve in the Roman army.

Then explain to me why the Byzantine empire suffered horribly after the loss of Egypt and Anatolia, plus that does not change the fact that Egypt and Africa were the Breadbasket of Rome....

 

[Cuāuhtemōc]

Then explain to me why the Byzantine empire suffered horribly after the loss of Egypt and Anatolia, plus that does not change the fact that Egypt and Africa were the Breadbasket of Rome....

They suffered horribly before that with the Plague of Justinian and the rather devastating wars with the Sassanids. Plus it was overextension when it came to losing North Africa, they were bound to lose it. As for breadbaskets, did the Byzantine Empire suffer? Sure but did the majority of citizens starve to death. I like to think not; they could always trade stuff for it and they had the Crimea which was a breadbasket on its own.

 

[Alexius I Kommenos]

They suffered horribly before that with the Plague of Justinian and the rather devastating wars with the Sassanids. Plus it was overextension when it came to losing North Africa, they were bound to lose it. As for breadbaskets, did the Byzantine Empire suffer? Sure but did the majority of citizens starve to death. I like to think not; they could always trade stuff for it and they had the Crimea which was a breadbasket on its own.

Yes but Egypt was a huge source of manpower, Anatolia were literally the training grounds of Byzantine army, last I checked Anatolia was extremly important for Byzantium.


Actually NA took a while to fall Ceuta the last Byzantine stronghold held out for a few centuries. So With Egypt gone the byzzies lost a major base of manpower The final blow came with Byzantine loss of Anatolia you know Guillermo well the Byzzies depended heavily on Anatolia


so that's why Alexandria should be the capital, thus what is happening is basically in a couple words, should the byzzies focus to the east or to the west, they focused to the east look what happened.

True wars with Sassanids weakened the Byzzies but Egypt could have been held if the Romans did not treat the Copts like pieces o shit...

 

[Cuāuhtemōc]

Yet Constantinople is a lot closer to the Balkans and Anatolia, its core areas and where its enemies dwelled it be it Bulgar, Seljuk, Ottoman, Serbian, etc. Ceuta actually fell pretty early into the Muslim conquests. Its governor switched sides.

Alexandria can't really offer that.