Based on my first Slavic Italy map from the previous map thread this that world 7oo years later. It is 1200 AD and while the Roman Empire rules the Mediterranean the Empire has been fractured. Civil War resulted in the loss of Egypt in 1155. The loss of Egypt was a blow to the empire, but not a fatal one thanks to imperial dominance of the Balkans, Italy, Anatolia, Iberia, and North Africa. The Empire barely retained Syria with its largely Monophysite population; still the loss of the Holy Land has hurt imperial moral. Iberia is still largely broken up into a number of smaller states, the smallest states playing Lusitania, Leon, and Rome off of each other to retain their independence. The Bulgarian Empire is a constant annoyance to its northern neighbors England and Francia and threatens Brittany routinely, launching raids, but never really doing a lot more than that. The Bulgars have lost their Turkic tongue and now speak a Romantic language. The Slavic states of Northern Italy are a lot like OTL Slovenia and are fairly romanized, even using the western alphabet. Lombardy has become a vassal of the Roman Empire and is protected from the Slavs by the Empire. Croatia is the largest of the Slavic Italian states, but its position is always being challenged by Serbia.
After the loss of Southern France the Franks were in a bad way, but a Charles Martel like figure rose to power and reclaimed Frankish glory by conquering Germany. With a lot of Franks leaving Bulgaria they relocated to the west and have pretty much Frankified and Christianized Germany. The region is united under the moniker the Kingdom of Francia, Bohemia, and Bavaria.
The combination of Frankish movement west and the lack of a greater Slavic state in Eastern Europe led to the migration of the Polanes people farther south into what would in OTL be known as Hungary. Here it is Polavia, a Slavic Kingdom that is very different from the Slavic states of Italy as it uses a Cyrillic-like alphabet developed by a Greek Orthodox priest. Because the Poles moved south the Lithuanians and Prussians did as well. The two fairly Frankified states are bulwarks against the Magyar Khaganate, who a have settled down a lot compared to what they were like then they first entered Eastern Europe.
The Volga Bulgars didn’t travel across Europe like their cousins and instead have set up shop in Northern Russia as the Bulgarian Khaganate. Few people confuse the two because they have become so different and because they are so far away from each other.
Persia has gotten rid of the Arab yoke, but was still islamified (or maybe it’s the other way around). The Caliphate rules from Baghdad, and though its power has weakened is still a threat to the Roman Empire, Aegypt, and Persia. The Caliphate has launched several attacks against Aegypt, but has been turned back every time either by the Aegyptians themselves of the Romans aiding the Aegyptians.
The states West Africa are mostly Orthodox Christians, but there are Coptic and Monophysite Christian states as well. Because of the lack of the Islamic conquest of North Africa there isn’t a significant Islamic population in West Africa.
