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diff --git a/WORLDBUILDING.md b/WORLDBUILDING.md index fd7f2fb..597ac80 100644 --- a/WORLDBUILDING.md +++ b/WORLDBUILDING.md @@ -1225,9 +1225,22 @@ These will cause future fragmentation episodes (Three Kingdoms / Five Dynasties - Venice in extremely delicate position: middleman between Aragon and Ilkhanate, both of whom want to bypass it - Genoa may align with one side or the other for survival +### Balkans: Post-Byzantine Fragmentation +With Byzantium reduced to a city-state, no one controls the Balkans. The Great Khanate is too weak/distant. Result: power vacuum → fragmentation. +| Entity | Status | +|---|---| +| Bulgar Khanate | Great Khanate vassal, highly autonomous. Largest Balkan state. | +| Serbia | **Independent** Orthodox kingdom (emerges from Byzantine collapse) | +| Bosnia | Small state, Serbian/Bulgarian influence zone | +| Dalmatia | **Venice** expands coastal control | +| Albania | Mountain tribes, de facto independent small polities | +| Greece | Fragmented: coastal/islands → Venetian, inland → small principalities | +| Constantinople | Neutral trade city-state (Patriarchate survives) | +- **No Islamization of the Balkans** (no Ottoman conquest → Bosnia/Albania remain Christian) +- Entire region: Orthodox Christian + some Catholic (Dalmatian coast) + ### Great Khanate: Losing Its Proxies -- **Byzantium effectively lost** as a Mediterranean/Balkan proxy -- Balkans: now managed only through weakening Bulgar Khanate vassal → less control, more chaos +- **Byzantium effectively lost** as a Mediterranean/Balkan proxy → Balkans fragmenting (see above) - Northern Ulus: practically independent - Poland: expanding self-governance - Core shrinking to: Volga capital → Ukraine → Hungary → Kazakhstan steppe |