The Crusades (Game II)

[McMonkey]

Done!

[Civilionaut]

We ask the Arabs if our ships may pass the straight of Gibraltar.

done, for this ship
you have harbor on each ocean, so you need no pass

[Gelion]

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[Ingvar]

The Great Fair built in Paris.

[Alcibaides]

[Jerec]

Mass Servile Labour built in Constantinople.

[McMonkey]

No news

[Civilionaut]

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[Gelion]

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[cupcoffee]

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[Ingvar]

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[Alcibaides]

Sultan Kilij Arslan, leader of the Seljuk Turks, declares a Jihad against the Frankish barbarian Crusader state.

Does Sultan Kilij Arslan consider the Normans to be "Frankish"?

[Ingvar]

A quote from Wikipedia:

"Contemporary definitions of the ethnicity of the Franks vary by period and point of view. Many in the East used the term "Franks" to describe or refer to Western Europeans and Roman Catholic Christians in general. It is unclear, though, to what extent different Western European groups described or referred to themselves as the Franks."

(A bit out of context, but still interesting.)

Edit:The "Contemporary" part is not defined on the page. I assume it means contemporary to the Merovingians, noted in the text earlier, or contemporary to the whole period the term/name Frank was used?

[Gelion]

I guess we just have to wait and see what Sultan Kilij Arsla meant