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ITT: we discuss the greatest empire in history.
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>>1296172
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>>1296172
impossible, the butthurt is too strong
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHp1SKdBSzE
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Ok
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>>1296172
C'mon anon, it was a cool empire and all but even you know that they never controlled all that territory.
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Glorious.
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>>1296269
Hot.
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>>1296221
Lol!
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>>1296269
Cousin marriage isn't inbreeding. About 80% of all marriages have been between cousins. You want to see inbreeding look at Egypt from 200 ad to 600. People were just fine with marriage between siblings.
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>>1296172
Nothing but imitators all of you.
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>>1296344
not bold enough
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>>1296333
Okay nice Taqiya
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>>1296269
>kurds
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>>1296357
:^)
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>>1296172
Isnt most of that desert?
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>>1296387
You're legacy is no more.
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>>1296172
>0.20 Drachma has been deposited in your account
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>>1296172
the GREATEST!
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>>1296172
Started declining once they could no longer loot Europe. Became irrelevant shit hole once Europe cut them out of the East Asian/India trade money.
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Rule Britannia!
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>>1296172
I feel like these maps keep getting bigger. Does anyone else notice this? And I actually like the Ottomans.
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>>1296172
>iceland
>ottoman
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>>1296172
>Vienna
>Not Ottoman
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>>1296172
What the actual fuck is that map OP
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>>1296172
>greatest empire in history
literally the only """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""empire""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" beaten by Russia on a regular basis
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>>1296344
This triggers my Domination days

>tfw you got the Tracia/Phygia/Egypt realm
>tfw you got Galia and went down the border and went to Mauritania or Proconsularis
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>>1296333
>Isn't interbreeding
>People were just fine with marriage between siblings.


Have you seen how medieval and ancient people reconstruction looked like?
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>>1298564
>that kid that went for Italia
>that game when someone seizes Illyria and no one stops him to claim the reinforcements
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>>1296221

At first I thought he was spraying themw with something.
Then I realised it was just the sounds they were making, disgusting.
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>>1296172
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>>1296172
Why Iceland?
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>>1298900
>>1298889

Sneaky Turks trying to pocket Iceland.
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>>1296172
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>>1298983
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>>1296221
topkek
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>>1296172
but pretty much everyone hates that Empire

Muslims thought it was too secular
Turks thought it was too religious
Euros thought it was too Muslim
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>>1298983
>>1298986
oh hey there, seams like you are abit lost buddeh

>>>/pol/
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>>1298548
>beaten by Russia on a regular basis

what about Germany
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>>1299177
>not Ming, Tang, or Han
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>>1297350
why do we own zeila but not Hafsun?

I'll have ya know, Ottomans conquered all the way down to Musqat as well, and Suqutra to boot
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>>1298548
and france
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>>1299177
>Yunnan
I didn't know there were greeks in china!
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>>1299062

Germans get beaten by pretty much everybody on a regular basis
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1st Rome. 2nd Britain. Why is this even a discussion?
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>>1299491
>British "empire"
Colonial empires hardly count.
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>>1299524
>Colonial empires don't count
>tfw the British never had a proper European Empire because every time we got involved in Europe we didn't take any land and just liberated the people there like sensible chaps
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>>1298909
From what i remember the map counts some raid done by turkish mercenaries on iceland as conquering it.
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>>1299532
led by a Dutch guy who converted to Islam, changed his name, and started working for the Turks.
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>>1299531
>Napoléon empire
>not spreading democracy and human rights among Europe
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>>1296186
first post best post
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>>1299429
Because a one time loss constitutes consistency
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>>1296172
You're all kidding yourselves.
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>>1299595
>>>/int/
>>>/pol/
>>>/madeupmaps/
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>>1296386
>turkish scum spotted
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>>1296172
Welcome to /pol/ with dates.
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>>1296172
gr8 b8 m8
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>Iceland
Sorry, but that's not the Roman Empire.
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>>1297317
This
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You first, OP...
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>>1296172
Will the roach circle-jerking ever end?
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>>1298889
Because Sardinia Sicily Corsica Calabria Southern France and Southern Spain being green on that map is totally normal right?
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>>1299621
As if OP's map wasn't fake in the first place, retard.
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>>1298983
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>>1299177
I don´t knew about kuye island
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>>1299177
Excuse me friend, your map seems to have left out the Spratly Islands, which have been an essential part of China's borders since time immemorial. :^)
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>>1296172
Its shit because it was sunni

kill all sunni t.bh
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>>1301607
t. Persia
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>>1301617
you're not half wrong , for an Bektashi country turned disgusting sunni by selim the grim
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>>1300061
Inbred countryless kurd rat spotted

>enjoy those turk bombs

>inb4 heli shot down
Boohoo 1 heli lost dont act like it never happened before or its as significant as turk bombing kurds to hell
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>>1296172
Oh yeah, I forgot they dug a bit past North Africa, how did that go?
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>>1303703
They didn't even get all North Africa, OP's map is full of shit
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>>1298892
>Genocide of the Palestinian people
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