Recent content by Lascaris

Why go in such a roundabout way? If Sicily wanted Albania it has the power to conquer it, no reason to do it by proxy. Aside from his daddy the former emperor being still alive, as is his elder brother while two out of the three Byzantine emperors are his nephews? What job you'd give him and...

It is essentially a defensive measure on the Venetian part. Venice is too weak at the moment to take on the Lascarids, even recovered it would likely have a smaller fleet that Sicily but it is recovering fast and is still a significant power on its own. Arguably neither Andronikos IV nor his...

Last I've seen the ecumenical patriarchate has primacy in the Orthodox world and the Russian try to challenge and undermine it since the time of the tsars. :angel:

At the moment the wave function has not collapsed yet. :p

Yes :angel: That depends. One notes Rokossovsky had very similar feelings... That Duy Tan still ends in a plane crash looks to me unlikely. That said what he does in Vietnam is a more interesting question. I cannot see him cooperating in any meaningful way with D'Argenlieu. And from the...

Constantinople, April 1378 Five synods had already taken place over hesychasm. The Palamites, named after Gregory Palamas the leading hesychast, had won the first two thanks to strong theological arguments... the support of Ioannis Kantakouzenos, lost the third on equally strong theological...

Euripides Bakirtzis ended up the war as corps commander in the Italian front, with his units reaching Munich by the end of the war. A protege of Pangalos, it's no secret Bakirtzis will likely end up leading the Greek army one day in the not too distant future... Charalambos Katsimitros, is the...

The communists got 38.11% of the vote in May 1946 in free elections. Color me unconvinced that kind of electoral appeal was dependent on whether American of Soviet tanks got to Prague a week ahead of each other.

Syracuse, March 1376 Agnes looked at her younger brother with some concern. Louis was married to Constance of Aragon, the elder daughter of Peter IV of Aragon. Her brother had created a mercenary company during the French civil war. With Charles V of France wanting Louis and his "Navaresse...

Who would that be? Neither Philip nor Louis have reason to follow Blanche here. Now that you mention it Louis was the one to bring the Navarrese company to the Balkans OTL... Valentina the queen of Cyprus was the sixth of the legitimate children of Bernabo. Valentina the daughter of Gian...

Active Fleet Destroyers: 4 Zafer class: 4 (Zafer, Demirhisar, Muavenet, Gayret) Ships Lost in action since August 15, 1940 Armored ships: 2 Fatih class: 1 Barbaros class: 1 Cruisers: 1 Yavuz class: 1 Turgut Reis class: 1 Destroyers: 8 Zafer class: 4 Yildirim class: 4 Submarines: 11...

I'm not exactly fond of the man, for all the modernizing/westernizing hype post 1923 he established a dictatorial one party state whose trappings remained generations after his death the "army as guardian of western values" could be just as easily construed as "the army enforcing its interests...

Battleships: 1 Salamis class: 1 (Salamis) Cruisers: 2 Lemnos class: 1 (Lemnos) Averof class: 1 (Averof) Destroyers: 14 Themistoklis class: 2 (Themistoklis, Miaoulis) Kanaris (J) class: 4 (Kanaris, Apostolis, Sachtouris, Meliti) Sfendoni (H) class: 4 (Sfendoni, Velos, Thyella, Logchi) E...

Well the Italian wiki say otherwise and I'm inclined to believe it more than the English one when it comes down to matters Italian.

Ion Dragoumis has had an eventful life, as diplomat, guerilla, spymaster, writer and politician. Having resigned from the premiership back in 1944 he is leading the opposition. A hale 67 year old he shows no inclination of leaving the leadership of his National Radical Party anytime soon...