One day...
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>>538477
Fuck Libya, eh?
>>538685
And most of Pontus too, apparently.
>inb4 /twg/ memes
>>538477
>Hadrian! Tear down this wall!
>>538960
Wait.. there are total war memes?!?!.. where have these been all my life?
>>538477
The ottomans actually got pretty close on restoring rome if you look at both maps.
>>539206
on /twg/
>>539212
Prime Byzantine borders maybe but you can't claim to be Rome without owning Rome at least once
>>539220
That also almost happened if only mehmed II didn't die so soon.
>>539220
Wasn't he the ultimate Romanboo and claimed the throne through some Macedonian lineage and had all his wives be white so his line looked more european?
>>539309
Mehmet? No, he conquered Constantinople and as conqueror he assumed the title of Caesar of the Romans with Patriarchal support. And he was apparently a massive Greekaboo, since after taking Constantinople he went to what he thought were the ruins of Troy and proclaimed to have defeated the descendants of Aeneas and their souls could rest in peace.
>>539206
>>538477
With the state modern italy is in? Never again.
>>539377
I think he was the only one that tried to unironically claim Rome. All the Sultans after him either didn't or just did it for shits and giggles
>>538477
Is that map supposed to be the Roman Empire in the year 1023 in some alt-history?
>>539437
All of the Ottoman emperors up to Mehmet IV were emperors of Rome, among many other titles. They only went by Sultan colloquially, but officially:
His Sacred and Imperial Majesty,
Sultan (Given Name) Khan,
Emperor,
Sovereign of the House of Osman,
Sultan of Sultans,
Khan of Khans,
Commander of the Faithful and Caliph of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe,
Custodian of the Holy Sanctuaries,
Emperor of Rome,
Emperor of The Three Cities of Constantinople, Adrianople and Bursa, and of the Cities of Damascus and Cairo, of all Azerbaijan, of the Magreb, of Barka, of Kairouan, of Aleppo, of the Arabic and the Persian Iraq, of Basra, of Al-Hasa strip, of Ar Raqqah, of Mosul, of Diyarbakır, of Cilicia, of the provinces of Erzurum, of Sivas, of Adana, of Karaman, Van, of Barbary, of Abyssinia, of Tunisia, of Algiers, of Tripoli, of Damascus, of Cyprus, of Rhodes, of Crete, of the province of Morea, of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and also their coasts, of Anatolia, Rumelia, Baghdad, Kurdistan, Greece, Turkistan, Tartary, Circassia, of the two regions of Kabarda, of Georgia, of the Steppe of Kypchaks, of the whole country of the Tatars, of Kefe and of all the neighboring regions, of Bosnia, of the City and Fort of Belgrade, of the province of Serbia, with all the castles and cities, of all Albania, of all Eflak and Bogdania, as well as all the dependencies and borders, and many other countries and cities.
>>539256
Bullshit. There was no way he could have taken Rome.
