Norman Empire

The Norman Empire was a large and short-lived major empire originating from Normandy in France, but quickly growing across most of northern Europe, and temporarily becoming one of the major powers of the world. They were allies with many of the other powers at the time, including Terra and Celestia in the Anti-Soviet Coalition. At their peak, they controlled northern France, the Benelux, the British Isles except for Scotland, Germany, Poland and Czechia, parts of Belarus and Ukraine, and all of Fennoscandia. They quickly conquered many nations across Europe, but their expansions caused them to overextend themselves, resulting in them suddenly losing most of their land, and then being invaded and annexed by Byzantium.
== History ==
The nation was established in 218AD as the Norman Republic. After forming, they made an alliance with Ireland, and invaded the North Sea Empire alongside them the next year. They won, and gained the Benelux and Norway. Shortly after, they declared themselves the Norman Empire. They then conquered Denmark, followed shortly after by Sweden, and then the rump Polish kingdom, defeating all three of them and using Poland as a base to invade the Volhynian Kingdom.
After defeating and annexing them, they invaded and conquered Germany during the next year in order to secure a land connection between their eastern and western territories. They also expanded into Czechia. The same year, after Irish plans to backstab Normandy were leaked to them, they broke their alliance and invaded them. Ireland did not resist, and they were quickly annexed, giving the Normans most of the British Isles and Iceland. As the main instigator of the Quebec Crisis and subsequent War, they annexed some land from Quebec in Nunavik. They also colonized the south of Alaska, but pulled from Alaska around the same time Terra pulled back from North America. After Terra dissolved, they also colonized part of Manitoba.
They were a member of the Anti-Soviet Coalition and a participant in the War on the USSR, annexing Finland and Belarus from them after their surrender and dissolution. They expanded into Ukraine after the dissolution of Terra. After launching a strange short-lived incursion up into Nunavut from their colony in Manitoba to block off the Inuits from expanding, the empire suddenly shattered during 223AD. This left them with only its core of France, the Benelux west of the Rhine, and the British Isles.
In this weakened state, the Byzantine Empire invaded them, annexing their territory in mainland Europe, and releasing the rest as independent kingdoms, bringing a quick end to the short-lived major power. The Norman Empire is primarily remembered for their strange relations with Quebec, as well as their sudden growth followed by a quick fall.
Category:Former Nations