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Author's Note: The above map is Europe, c. August 2011

I have a few questions to ask about Europe, if anyone on AH.com will care to answer them for me:

1.) Will the European Union bail out the Roman Empire?

2.) Speaking of which, isn't it strange how the the Roman Empire hasn't ruled Rome for the last 1500 or so years? There are more Turkish than Latin speakers in the Basileia ton Rhomaion these days. That last war in the 1940s where the Romans took over Italy doesn't count really count.

3.) There's more booze than in God's own liquor cabinet in Cordoba, but for the life of me, I cannot find a single piece of pork in that city. How come? Or am I just looking in the wrong places? Al-Andalus has been a place of refuge for Christian schismatics from Europe for centuries. I know there has to be some.

Or did most of the schismatics move to Cadiz or Toledo?

4.) Does the Golden Horde really call itself that, or is the name just a holdover from Medieval times?

5.) Why does Bavaria insist on maintaining an Admiralty despite being a double landlocked country?

6.) Why does the Prussian Army still field formations of Teutonic Knights? Are they really monastic knights, or is their name a throwback to the Crusaders of old?

7.) Why is the nation of Georgia so radically different in culture from their Roman and Mongol neighbors? Also, why hasn't it been conquered?

8.) Why is Moscow so ugly in comparison to other Eastern European capitals like Sarai, Novgorod, Warsaw or Constantinople?

9.) What language does the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's government conduct its affairs in?

10.) Speaking of which, why does the English Government conduct all official business in French?
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