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    How so? None of Adrienne and Ioannis II sons are adults, Alexandros II is 11 years old. Ioannis II's status as Theodoros II's heir was decided and consecrated by Alexandros I before he died, and that has lasted for well over 17 years, so it's pretty much undisputed. The grandees and the...
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    Time to change partners perhaps? Ioannis II might be seeking to organize the defense of Macedonia and seek a status quo peace deal to prepare for next round, but I don't think the Lascarids will forget the Genoese's role in the affair.
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    Unlikely. Unlike Manzikert Byzantine Empire, the Lascarid Empire is not in turmoil. For "unfortunate" the death of Theodoros II is, the order of succession has been stable for nearly two decades, with Adrienne marriage to Ioannis GM before Alexandros I's death, and the birth of their son...
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    Poor Agnes. So, now we get Ioannis II Gryphon-Maniakes and his near 11 years old son Alexandros II Doukas Vatatzes Lascaris Gryphon Maniakes...
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    When did it peak? And how high? I remember something about 1.5 million, but I'm not sure in which currency it was denominated.
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    Speaking of which, @Lascaris, what's the current debt of the Lascarid Empire, and the budget surplus/deficit ? It has been almost nine years since the peace with Venice now, and about five since the conquest of Cyprus has been completed. I'm curious to know how much of the dividends of peace...
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    The powerful realm would be Hungary. The French have been a bit too busy with England for the past half century to intervene directly in Italian affairs, and since the TL has advanced to 1381, Charles V is dead and Charles VI is under his uncles' regency. Unless you get hindsight about Louis of...
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    Put the other way around, what reason is there for Hungary to accomodate Syracuse? Lajos' attitude towards the Lascarids has been one of barely veiled content, and he did not hesitate to throw them under the "cart" when making separate peace with Venice; as far as the Angevins are concerned, in...
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    On the Ottomans, I suppose their consolidation efforts in anticipation of the showdown with the Lascarids will translate with an earlier expansion into the coastal beyliks. How that might make up for the less important foothold in the Balkans, I wonder though. Resources and demographics on this...
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    Just a little silly idea. How about a rapproachment between Syracuse and Venice ? Because of the outcome of the War of St Titus, the Venetians and the Lascarids don't have much anymore in terms of conflicting interests, while the same can't be said about Genoa, which just snatched Tenedos from...
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    Not sure it will matter in any way regarding Aragon or the Angevins. The senior branch dispossessed the Majorca branch from their kingdom in the 1340s, and the Sicilian branch, which got Durrazzo as a compensation for Sicily, lost it to the Serbs about the same time. Aragon has more pressing...
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    Durazzo don't break the lock the Lascarids have on the Otranto straits, or on the Ionian sea crossroads. And holding it against the Albanian tribes will be a money sinkhole for the Venetians in the near future. So not much the Lascarids would have to be worried about.
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    They would still need to stop over at Lascarid ports for resupply, don't they? And besides the Lascarid navy, there is noone guaranteeing the safety of trading ships from piracy, where IOTL, you had the hospitaliers, the Genoese, and the Venetians keeping guard. If the Lascarids refuse to...
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    On the sea at least you can see the enemy coming; no need of land routes, slow, unsafe, and inefficient in comparison to the sea. And the city of Constantinople is hardly a place where any rebel can take to the mountains to hide. Riots or uprisings can be put down in fire and blood if need be...
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    At this stage perhaps... perhaps not. Gunpowder siege artillery is not yet a thing, do good luck breaking the Theodosian Walls without. And the Lascarids have a fleet that the Ottomans don't have, so impossible to threaten from the sea, the Golden Horn, as in 1453, and divide the defenders, and...
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    Does it need to be much superior? Having unified command and by extension a consistent strategy, can surely go a long way towards evening the odds.
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    Besides, neither the Savoyards nor the Byzantines had a fleet that could sustainably interdict passage across the Straits, but the Lascarids do have one that do just that. Lascaris, replying to a point on the question earlier in the thread, noted that cutting the Straits to Turkish shipping and...
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    Wiki says the OTL Lucia was born in 1380. Butterfly or wiki error?
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    Are we yet to the point where the Hesychast clergy would better have the Sultan ruling than a Lascarid?
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    It would probably help the Ottomans. The Lascarids control all major maritime trade shipping lanes and ports between the North Aegean, Cyprus and the Ionian sea chokepoints. That leaves only, smuggling excepted, the Ottomans as the most plausible intermediary, unless you pick the more circuitous...
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