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Glorious Scandinavia! The Imperial Provinces of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Ruthenia and Pomerania, along with the True and Loyal Vassal Kings (or else) of Norway, Rus and Volga Bulgaria. As well as assorted eastern conquests. My only regret is not having time to clean up my Carpathian and German borders.
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The Empire of Carpathia, a fragment of its past glory. It was this Empire that stretched across the steppe, entirely eradicating the Tengri faith before Mongol arrival. The Catholic Arpad kings were tricked by devious Greeks and the Empire turned Greek and Monothelite (which replaced Orthodoxy) for several centuries. The current Emperors are Catholic, but also Greek.
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The Theocratic Kingdom of Bavaria, somehow ruled by a King-Bishop. The greatest power of central-west Europe for quite a while under Karling kings, but eventually replaced by some native German dynasty.
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The Knights Hospitalier of Italy. Conquered the place from a Cathar Karling king in a crusade, have held it ever since. Don't you just love that knightly grey? Italy is culturally almost entirely Occitain.
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The Knights of Calatrava of the northern half of
France. Also conquered the place from a different Cathar Karling. Their area is culturally Castilian! Also sharing France: the scattered Kingdom of Galicia-Aquitaine, the Anglo-Saxon Duchy of Mercia, the last Karlings of the Kingdom of Burgundy.
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Castille. A new power in the region, rivalling the
Knights of Santiago controlling most of the rest of Spain, having taken it in a crusade from... Muslims, for once.
-In the British Isles: Anglo-Saxon
York, the ever-name-changing
Kingdom of Wales (it's been ruled by Irish, Bretons, Welsh and someone else, all with their own name for it), and, um,
Bulgarian Scotland. As in, culturally Bulgarian. The plucky Bulgarians liberated a tiny Bulgaria, somehow conquered Scotland - who were Lollard heretics and the strongest British power - and later split the two Kingdoms.
-Also visible, everyone's favorite,
the Byzantine Empire. Strongest power in Europe. I've never paid much attention to them, but they've conquered a bit and held onto everything else, including reclaiming Venice at some point. Turned Monothelite at some point.
-Not visible, the East - a mess. The Ilkhanate conquered a lot of territory, but just disappeared one day, leaving the region full of squabbling small powers. Now destroyed were such gems as the Cathar Tulunids of Egypt (a Muslim dynasty that
somehow became Cathar, converted all of Egypt and held the fort against repeated Jihads for a century. They were eventually destroyed... after becoming Monothelite. The Knights of Calatrava also control Jerusalem.