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12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Hello all, just wanted to check-in. If you have your orders ready or saved please say Aye.
12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Aye
12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Aye.
12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Aye
12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Ayeeee. Anyone play of this map yet? Seems like its going to be a lot of fun
12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Aye
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12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Armenia is beefy on this map. 7 land provinces bordered + Caspian + 2 more provinces via Silk Road.
12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Aye
12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Of course it's my neighbors that no-show
12 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Aye
13 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Delhi, I think that begs another question: Does the map maker know where Armenia is?
13 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Cause Armenia is basically around where Georgia, Diyarbakir, and Anatolia meet. There are also numerous other naming errors on this map, some of which are names that don't even exist
13 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: But did those names exist in the 13th Century?
13 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: Yes, yes they did
13 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: There are also a fair few of these names that I can not find any reference to when looking them up, probably the most obscure was seeing one single map that had Pitzorke Sea labeled (it said Mare Pitzorke). There are also other things such as North Cathay, South Cathay, and Waters of Cathay, (Cathay being an alternate word for China named after the culture of the Liao Dynasty) which is far too north for the areas they controlled.
13 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: To be fair to the map creator, the Byzantines used Armenians extensively in their eastern provinces. Nikephoros II, John I, and Basil II had programs to resettle them across the frontier to replace departing Arabic populations in the Taurus mountains. John I Tzimiskes was likely Armenian and some Armenians had a kingdom on the southern shore of Anatolia after the 4th Crusade took Constantinople.

So of all the territories to make into a beefcake, Armenia isn't a bad choice. But it was likely divided into multiple smaller fiefdoms that owed allegiance to Romans/Mongols/Crusaders/Turks vying for control of the area.
13 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: You may want to check again where Anatolia is. Armenia would just about entirely be in the Diyarbakir area on here. If they wanted to that's the province they should have named Armenia. Armenians weren't at all really in the area of the Armenia province here
13 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
14 Mar 20 UTC Spring, 1231: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.

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