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Part LIII: A Tiger Reborn (1465-1526) The seventy-year long period between 1465 and 1520 had seen the Karamanid Beylik transform itself from a crippled state on the verge of death into a regional power, stronger in Anatolia than the Ottomans themselves were. Like the personified Rome which had...

September 1525, Ananuri The rain patterned away at the walls of the tent, sounding like the stamping feet of marching soldiers or the faint clatter of galloping horsemen. David shuddered and crossed himself for the umpteenth time that day, but didn't break stride. He paced across the muddy...

I was completely unaware of that, actually. It parallels OTL by quite a bit, funnily enough, though I think it's actually an inverse from OTL. It'll be detailed in the next chapter.

Part LII: Red Autumn, Black Winter (1525-1526) The months following the Battle of Ananuri would go down as some of the worst in Kartvelian history. The king was dead and the throne was left to families of squabbling nobles, all the while the Mongols swarmed across the eastern half of the...

All of this is fairly correct, but probably not in the way you think it'll be. Hypothetically grenade slingers are possible, but there's the unfortunate tendency of flying off in the wrong direction and blowing up your own men that must be dealt with first. Sorry for the long delay guys, I got...

Part LI: Union (Valley of Ananuri) (1525) The Trapezuntine Empire and the Kingdom of Georgia had been joined at the hip since birth, driven together by the common threat of the seas of hostile infidels that surrounded them on all sides. The Kartvelians had given aid and succor to the...

Part L: The Gates of Alexander (1455-1525) In the middle years of the 15th century, Basileios of Funa and several companions had journeyed into the untamed wilds of the eastern Caucasian Mountains, hoping to spread the good news amongst the even wilder men of the region. The Avars, Vainakhs had...

I should also note I started writing narrative appendices Appendix A: December 1523, Sarai Nogai rode across the plains, his own ragged breath barely audible over the thundering of his horse’s hooves and the thunder of cannonade behind him. He glanced over his shoulder, anything other than the...

@stevep Hungarian folk song, actually. Ding ding ding. Oh yeah, we'll be going back to the Empire for a while. David's ambitions (and other things) will cause trouble in the future, no doubt about it. I'd say more, but that's be spoiling. David's army does need to be mordenized rather...

No, the Karamanids/Neo-Rum are completely separate from the Qoyunlu/Qutlughids at this point

Part XLIX: The Opening of the Davidine Period (1523-1525) Loukas Ratetas had, during his long regency, secured the throne of the Megalokomnenoi for the young aftokrator David. Like Anastaios or Tzimiskes before him, he had overseen a period of domestic quiet and successful campaigns abroad that...

Sorry, no time for comment response, have a nice day, thank you for reading. Part XLVI: The Ratetas Regency (1517-1525) The madness and subsequent purges of Alexios V had resulted in the death of most of the Trapezuntine aristocracy, an effect that was only intensified by the rapid rotation of...

Part XLVI: The War of the Second Holy League (1521-1522) As King Julius of Hungary and his allies streamed across the Ottoman Empire’s northern and western frontiers, it seemed as if that venerable dynasty was facing its deathblow. The once-proud state had been devastated by years of civil war...

Thank you. Albanian empire of narco-clans incoming. Seriously, I imagine that if the Ottomans keel over then it'll probably be the Moreotes who take Constantinople, just because Trapezous would be seriously overextending itself. Perhaps a Third Bulgarian Empire or some Greek revolter state...

Part XLV: An Overview of the Balkans (1500-1520) The Balkan Peninsula in 1520 was radically changed from what it had been a mere two decades before. The Ottoman Empire, which had once dominated the region and projected power far beyond its geographical limits, had been severely reduced by a...

We'll get back to Trapezous soon, but matters in the Balkans will be wound up soon. The Ottomans are indeed more Greek/Bulgar than Turkish now.

Short on time, comments later Part XLIV: Balışeyh’s Nightmare (1514-1519) In the closing years of the 13th Century, Osman had ridden alongside a Sufi mystic by the name of Balışeyh, sometimes rendered as Sheikh Edebali. Balışeyh was an Arab exile and a strong mystic, who served as advisor to...

Part XLIII: Peace? (1523--) The end of the Middle Ages is most commonly dated to either 1453, with the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire[1], or 1523, with the death of Louis XII in battle and the resulting end of the War of the Three Leagues. The selection of the latter date is quite...

Shit I forgot to actually post the update.

I do find the concept of an independent Aquitaine quite interesting, so you essentially just read off a page of my notes in that regard. The Mamluks aren't in any position to give aid to the Maghreb, as we shall soon see. (hint: the Anabasis of the Turkmen). The Reconquista will carry over...