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The Anatolian border is very illogical, just cutting willy-nilly across the plateau. Also, I can't really see a state called "Athens" controlling that much territory. Bulgaria holding Constantinople in a post-1204 situation is plausible, I guess, but I think it's likely such a state would come to call itself "Rhomania" or somesuch before too long!
 
That's the point, Netherlands would have been German or French if not for Burgundy.

Or someone else inheriting all those counties, or something else bringing them together.

Burgundy did it OTL, but it's not the only possibility.
 
Looks like a CK2 game

Now that you mention it, it does resemble one. Germany's territory is basically what you get in HRE if Italy successfully breaks away early game, and after the Zahringen duchies in Carinthia and Ferrara are split up. Granted, actually unifying Italy is less likely to occur, unless a player is involved. Poland's borders are basically it's starting borders plus acquisition of Pomeralia, which is reasonably common (she also has Stettin, but that's far from impossible given the vagaries of inheritance law in CK2). I don't remember whether East Prussia was historically ever ruled by a King or Grand Duke of Lithuania, but in-game, the duchy of Prussia is considered part of the kingdom of Lithuania. Granted, you need to get someone to form it, which, given how all the Lithuanian dukes are pagans, can be difficult for the computer to pull off. That French North Africa bit practically occurs every third game, along with Castilian Morocco. Super-Portugal too, though independent Navarre is a bit out of place. Its not uncommon for France to nom Aragon either, and its eastern border is basically its starting border. Britannian unification is rare in the hands of the computer, but can happen easily with a player, and he generally does tend to turn towards France, starting with Brittany and Normandy. Independent Sicily is Computer Italy's inability to generate CBs. Finnic Federation's borders are basically the borders for the Kingdom of Finland in game, but computer is crap at playing any pagan starts, and Norway and Sweden always makes it to Finnmark and Norrland before they get absorbed by any Finnish duke. Like with Britannia, Scandinavian unification can occur easily with a player holding the reigns, but the computer, barring some lucky marriages, rarely has the wherewithal. It's borders do match de-jure Empire of Scandinavia less Finland.

Further east is where things start getting a bit more difficult. Disunited Russians being dominated by a Super-Golden Horde is pretty much par for the course in CK2 though, though Golden Horde tends to just gobble them up. CK2 uses Galich for Galicia instead of Halych, as far as I know, and Kiev instead of Kyiv. I've never seen Serbia do something other than get nommed by Byzantine Empire, though Croatia tends to maintain independence. Honestly, I haven't played starts where you can start as Despot of Serbia all that much, but I don't think I've ever seen Serbia conquer Croatia. Athens to describe what's basically Greece is just weird. Maybe super-Duchy of Athens that for some reason, doesn't decide to grab the title of King of Greece? Bulgaria's borders are roughly contiguous to the Tsardom of Bulgaria's borders if you play a start with Bulgaria, but Byzzies are usually still around and a powerhouse, so I wouldn't see them grabbing Constantinople. I have no clue what Muntenia is; but that area usually tends to be dominated by Hungary or Byzantine Empire (in fact, it's rare for Hungary to lose control of any part of the Great Hungarian Plain or the Carpathian Basin, much less lose Transylvania to some Greater Vlach Kingdom of Wallachia...or Muntenia. Are there even starts where you can play as a Vlach lord?). rather, than Otherwise, they never pop up. I have once seen Teutonic Order conquer the entire Kingdom of Greece in one of my games, which led to inroads into Anatolia. Thing is, it only did that with significant help from me (Holy Roman Emperor), and I had to keep jumping back in to bail them out whenever the Turks came knocking. I've literally never seen an independent Armenia last for more than a generation, let alone become super-Wilson Armenia. When they don't get subsumed into the Byzantine Empire, they end up just getting conquered by random Turks (Seljuks in early starts, Rum in later). Independent Kingdom of Jerusalem isn't impossible, but unless you play one of the Kingdom of Jerusalem starts, anyone who crusades for the Kingdom will just absorb it into the parent kingdom of the Crusader (unless it's a duke who wins, in which case you do get an Independent KoJ. But only a King has enough power to really win a Crusade when the computer's playing. Player duke isn't impossible, but you likely have bigger things to worry about). If the computer does take Jerusalem, expansion north into Syria, as the map shows, is fairly rare. It's usually a chore just keeping the Muslims from driving them back into the sea. Persia, on the other hand, tends to become Super-Persia in most of my games. Thing is, they also tend to be absorbed by the Ilkhanate, which always occurs before the Golden Horde. Is that Persia a Mongol or Persian state?

But yes, my point is, that map can conceivably be the result of a CK2 game.
 
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Given a POD after 1000 AD and the language color coding for North Africa, we can infer a pretty horrendous series of successful and unpunished genocides. For one.
 
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