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Description
The Lion's paw stirs the dust,
A simple want becomes a must,
As envy, greed, then power lust,
Stirs within its slumbering heart.
The Cumans ride; the Romans slain,
The city once, then once again,
Saw battle won and lost in vain,
That Hainaut's count might play his part.
So John the Good raised his sword,
So fell Marquess and Latins' Lord,
Plundered gold to pagan horde,
As Romans humbly knelt.
And all the world did not just hear,
Unsheathe knife and shake in fear,
Romania lives, yet sheds a tear,
For the Lion's roar is not just heard, but felt.
For those unwilling to endure cryptic impromptu poetry, this map takes place in a world where Baldwn I, Latin Emperor, survived imprisonment by the Bulgarians after being captured during the Battle of Adrianople. This allows the Bulgarian king Kaloyan to ransom him back to the Latins, and use this money to raise a larger army. After crushing the Thessalonian army and retaking Adrianople, he conquers much of Greece, with Epirus conquering Athens and Archaea. Epirus backstabs their Bulgarian allies hoping to gain more of the former Byzantine Empire for themselves, but are badly beaten and pushed back, forcing them to cede territory in the north and accept the superiority of the Bulgarians. The Empire of Nicaea grinds down the Latin Empire in Asia Minor, and eventually retakes Constaninople itself. Though whilst the Roman Empire has been restored it is a shell of its former self, as Bulgaria has filled the void it left to become the predominant power in the Balkans.
This map was made for Map of the Month 2: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, a map (and timeline) contest on AlternateHistory.com - the entry thread for which can be found here: alternatehistory.com/discussio…
And the timeline this map was made to illustrate can be found here: alternatehistory.com/discussio…
A simple want becomes a must,
As envy, greed, then power lust,
Stirs within its slumbering heart.
The Cumans ride; the Romans slain,
The city once, then once again,
Saw battle won and lost in vain,
That Hainaut's count might play his part.
So John the Good raised his sword,
So fell Marquess and Latins' Lord,
Plundered gold to pagan horde,
As Romans humbly knelt.
And all the world did not just hear,
Unsheathe knife and shake in fear,
Romania lives, yet sheds a tear,
For the Lion's roar is not just heard, but felt.
For those unwilling to endure cryptic impromptu poetry, this map takes place in a world where Baldwn I, Latin Emperor, survived imprisonment by the Bulgarians after being captured during the Battle of Adrianople. This allows the Bulgarian king Kaloyan to ransom him back to the Latins, and use this money to raise a larger army. After crushing the Thessalonian army and retaking Adrianople, he conquers much of Greece, with Epirus conquering Athens and Archaea. Epirus backstabs their Bulgarian allies hoping to gain more of the former Byzantine Empire for themselves, but are badly beaten and pushed back, forcing them to cede territory in the north and accept the superiority of the Bulgarians. The Empire of Nicaea grinds down the Latin Empire in Asia Minor, and eventually retakes Constaninople itself. Though whilst the Roman Empire has been restored it is a shell of its former self, as Bulgaria has filled the void it left to become the predominant power in the Balkans.
This map was made for Map of the Month 2: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, a map (and timeline) contest on AlternateHistory.com - the entry thread for which can be found here: alternatehistory.com/discussio…
And the timeline this map was made to illustrate can be found here: alternatehistory.com/discussio…
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İmteresting choice at the symbol of Constantinopole; are there any non-christian still allowed to live in thar city in this ATL ?