>serbian ""empire""
lmao
Ancient finnish empire.
Empire of Brazil
>>847766
>>847766
the empire of my heart desu
>>847830
lol
>>847932
Is this real? The logistics... It's massive.
>>847790
>>848524
Is this some sort of meme? That would be the single greatest empire in all of history.
>>848524
>>847766
>>848628
no its a fact but racist whiteys have covered it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephthalite_Empire
>>848182
Now that's more like it. I wonder if it would have benefited anything for him to become Byzantine Emperor as well?
I hath proclaimed an empire in my room that encompasses the rest of my house minus the third bathroom. Fuck the third bathroom.
>>848662
Well, he did claim that title. "Tsar of the Serbs and Romans"... didn't exactly last very long, though.
>>848680
Yeah, but actually obtaining Constantinople through force or perhaps somehow diplomacy, and making use of the administrative apparatus there, might have helped keep his shit together.
>>848702
Indeed. Not even all that implausible, either.
>In 1355, Dušan begin military preparations, assembling an army of 80,000 men, an enormous number at that time. Dušan marched towards Constantinople, capturing Adrianople in a fierce battle. The Serbian army was proceeding to Constantinople, located 40 miles to the east, when Dušan suddenly died of an unknown illness at 46. His expedition ended as well.
He also started Byzantining his administration, publishing a law code, reforming courts and titles, and so forth. Sure could've been interesting. But then he was succeeded by Stefan "the Weak", who was exactly as effective as he sounds, and half the Empire crumbled into civil war. And we got a shitty power vacuum to welcome the Ottomans in over the next century.
>>848745
Damn interesting to speculate about. I think that Stefan the Weak wasn't even especially weak, just very much so when compared to his based father. Too bad the Serbs ended up being the Ottomans' best allies after that.
>>848524
WE
>>848105
>Is this real?
The extant and level of civilization of all the African “kingdoms” and “empires” is heavily dosed with politically correct ivory tower wishful thinking.
>>848105
The Kongo Kingdom only got that large, because they were looking for slaves to sell to the Europeans. They took prisoners from their wars, sold them as slaves for European stuff, which they then used to expand more and take more slaves.
>>847830
Lol no.
>>847766
>>848524
>argentina
>portugal
I'll give this pic WE WUZ / KANGS AND SHIET
>>848524
Technically, if we follow evolution as it is, everyone came from Africa.
>>848662
He was actually called by many within the city to become Roman Emperor, but Stefan became too cautious to take it, even though if actually could.
Then he died shortly after from drinking.
If he did, The Balkans would have benefitted immensely. Plenty of literate Greek administrators without jobs that can be put in place to massively increase administration efficiency and tax collection while Serbian minerals would be able to rebuild the dilapidated Roman Empire.
The Crusader states to the South would be easy pickings, thus re-uniting the peninsula and removing Frankish feudalism (which ruined the industries of Greece, especially silkmaking)
Meanwhile, Bulgaria was slowly imploding, which means the Serbs could reach in and take it in the next 20 years, and gain a source of troops, vast farmland and some minerals.
And all the while stopping any pretext of Ottoman advance into Europe.
No one has heard about the glorious empire of Montenegro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0%C4%87epan_Mali
>>849726
Yeah, I've read that Dusan's Serbia was the most powerful nation in Europe for a time.
Imagine a Byzantine Empire with Slavic alpha leaders man.... It's no coincidence that almost every time the later Roman or Byzantine Empires did well, it was an emperor from Thrace or Moesia or Dalmatia, or more rarely Armenia, at the helm.
>>849871
>The Ottoman Empire was afraid of the fact that a Russian Tsar was in the Balkans. In May 1768, the sultan ordered an expedition to be made in Montenegro. A few months later, they sent 50,000 Ottoman forces to Montenegro to capture Šćepan Mali, but were unable to do so, they were decisively defeated 10-20 kilometers south of Cetinje.
>>848524
Fookin saved
>>848635
>>848628
>>848524
Stop shitting up what could be a great board.
Bagratid Armenia
>>848105
It's obviously not real.
>>849266
>>849019
You have no idea what you're talking about, stop pretending you do.
>>849905
It would incidentally also create a major manufacturing hub in Eastern Europe, and turn the Balkans from a slight backwater into one of the most premier powers in Europe.
Oh, and Anatolia would be Christian. Steppe nomads don't mean shit when the other side can spam you with guns and settlers, which the Balkans would have in spades now that they aren't poor.
>>850103
t. Ubumbo Goodluck
>>849332
Probably never existed.
>Serbs think this is an empire
>>849906
btw, that army was bigger than the entire population of Montenegro at the time. they were so amped up and won.
>>848105
It was a failed political union between the states in the modern day that went off the rails because of a "mysterious plane crash" where the President died. Relatively recent.
>>850152
Elaborate?
I always get a kick out of this one
>>850103
Another Armenian on /his/? Barev aper.
>>847766
no one knows of the Cholas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Bukhara
Bunch of jews from my city are from here
