Recent content by galileo-034

Wiki says the OTL Lucia was born in 1380. Butterfly or wiki error?

Are we yet to the point where the Hesychast clergy would better have the Sultan ruling than a Lascarid?

It would probably help the Ottomans. The Lascarids control all major maritime trade shipping lanes and ports between the North Aegean, Cyprus and the Ionian sea chokepoints. That leaves only, smuggling excepted, the Ottomans as the most plausible intermediary, unless you pick the more circuitous...

And your point is? Hardly a reason to be disrespectful anyway.

This is what @Lascaris said a few pages back : Achaia was a Principality, Athens a Duchy. But the answer is the same The Lascarid ceased paying lip service when Charles III attacked in 1344, and as far as Syracuse is concerned, Angevin claims over any part of the Lascarid realms is void. They...

More or less what I had in mind. Sponge fishing perhaps? If I'm not wrong, Cyrenaica is closer to Crete than to Alexandria, and if Greek/Cretan fishing crews venture in these waters (confident of the protection the Lascarid fleet provides), the expansion of Greek economic interests in the...

Not yet... The same could be said of Rome and Parthia during the 2nd century BC (yet once the legions seized Syria, the clock was ticking), of France and Castille in the 14th century, England and Ivan the Terrible's Russia in the 16th century, yet we got seven centuries of Roman-Persian Wars...

How so? The Venetians OTL were in direct proximity with the Mameluks and then the Ottomans. Here, the Venetians have just been bottled up in the Adriatic. The only allies Venice can make or support are those in North Italy or in the western Balkans. That example is a point about patterns of...

In what sense it remains to be seen. If the Ottomans are strong enough to draw the bulk of Timur's attention to them like OTL, then it leaves the door open for the Mameluks to continue their regional hegemonic ambitions. They did vassalize Cyprus at some point in the early 15th century I...

Something like the Hafsids' OTL attack on Malta in 1429 for example? Speaking of which, I'm curious to see how things evolve in the relations between the Lascarid Empire and the other big muslim players of the Central and Eastern Mediterranean, be it the Mameluks or the Hafsids. Between the...

So, strike the iron while it's still hot.

@Lascaris, please, if you can tell us, what's the population of the Ottoman realm, supposing they get all of Thrace east of the Nestos river (their new border with the Lascarids I gather) and Bulgaria south of the Balkan mountains in the aftermath of Edirne/Maritsa? And the Lascarids, once...

Hello, Just to say the TL is still alive, but I got a heavy workload to deal with the past couple weeks. I'll try putting one or two updates out this weekend, before I leave for Italy next week.

Then, the Lascarids have both Rhodes and Crete to resupply, and the Genoese don't even have Chios. I don't see that many infantry with the bulk of Lascarid forces in Macedonia, perhaps half that, mostly, and so many ships would be overkill given the Venetians and the Hospitalers are out and the...

After Rhodes falls, while Alexandros P. is in Macedonia, nothing prevents Buas and Kallergis from finishing off the job by invading Cyprus, in lieu of the OTL Genoese invasion of 1373.