I believe if you adopt Orthodoxy you can be treated as fully Rhoman regardless of where you are from. I think this mindset is one of the Rhoman empires biggest strengths ttlI don't know if this has already been answered but do the Rhomans see being a Latin as a religious or an ethnic label. For example if a German immigrates to Egypt or Syria and converts to Orthodox do they stop being a Latin or are they simply considered "a Latin that practices the correct Christianity"?
There is no greater honor than to receive a badge of office from the Chakravartin, the Universal Emperor.
I'd certainly imagine some inappropriate regional pride in "taking back what was their's"....I do wonder if Rome will develop something akin to the Wild West mentality in those territories...
Would they need to move all that many people into Northern Mesopotamia? While they are certainly Sunni Muslim the area is going have a relatively small population of Arabs compared to the Levantine territory, most being a variety of Kurdish, Armenian, Turkmens, Azerbaijani, and other minorities. I figure that area will quickly be filled by more Armenian and East Anatolian Greeks and Turks with enough from Greece proper to fill it up without needing to import foreign settlers.For a non muslim population in Northern Mesopotamia.
Yeah good point, much less expensive and a more reliable populationHow many people would they need to move all that many people into Northern Mesopotamia? While they are certainly Sunni Muslim the area is going have a relatively small population of Arabs compared to the Levantine territory, most being a variety of Kurdish, Armenian, Turkmens, Azerbaijani, and other minorities. I figure that area will quickly be filled by more Armenian and East Anatolian Greeks and Turks with enough from Greece proper to fill it up without needing to import foreign settlers.
Gotta ask why the immigration to the new world? The move made by Demetrios III was more based on military and diplomatic actions to have an listening post to Mexico against the triunes. I'd figure like others that most immigration will be more internal one in the levant and northern Mesopotamia. After all Rome's policy in securing land requires more or less on being Roman and orthodox, that started after the ToT. Islam has no place on Rome at this point in their period, so I don't see a reason for them to immigrate on a far away land where diseases run rampant. Only once antibiotics start to develop should they even start to consider such a thing.
Is it? I thought its inhabited by independent tribes or are u talking about waypoint stations?I think the spanish already have a presence around Uruguay if im not wrong
I dunno lol i just remember Basileus444 mentioning the spanish had some presence there a while agoIs it? I thought its inhabited by independent tribes or are u talking about waypoint stations?
Though the area is much smaller and consequently the era it takes place in much shorter I do wonder if Rome will develop something akin to the Wild West mentality in those territories and how that might influence the Roman state.
Ok I don't think that's a good idea, anyone choosing that option would be courting political suicide.I, for one, am hoping for French immigrants to the region and for local dialects of Greek and Arabic to have French influence. Instead of major economic events along the frontier regions, why not give the same names from OTL to religious gatherings and geographic landmarks?
“Rendezvous” won’t refer to a convention of fur traders but of Latin pilgrimages to holy sites in Palestine like the Hajj for Islam led by local Catholic clergy (Ioannes Colter, Jedidiah Sideros, etc)
The Tetons as a name in Latin Christendom for the Taurus mountains in colloquial parlance?
Bonus points if Amerindian immigrants come to the region and ITTL Washakie is a Roman...
Probably not. OTL Greek communities there developed in a very different set of circumstances than TTL Greeks will.I wonder what Leventine Greek would sound like? Perhaps something like the Greek communities in Lebanon?
An urge to re-create the empire of Alexander is not off the table for the Rhoman far-right.You know thinking about that Wild West comment, I can't help but wonder whether or not Rhomania develops a bit of a Manifest Destiny thought process toward Persia. The empires of that region have been fierce opponents of the Empire for pretty much forever so if an opportunity for conquest presented itself and Rome goes further down the rabbit hole of xenophobia and imperialism, there might be a push to "put down the eternal enemy" or something along those lines, right?