The Byzantine Empire

The Flag of the ByzantineEmpire

The Byzantine Empire was founded during October 22 2020, but existed before this as a Land. It is run by ByzqntineEmpire and is one of the late original civilizations to come onto this server. The Byzantines were the ones who made the Haiga Sophia, Athens, Thessaloniki, Troy, Chania, and the Pyramid of Giza on the server. Some of the natural projects they made was expanding Lake Chad, the Aral Sea with Inaccurateben123, Cordinia (Corsica + Sardinia) Lake Mesopotamia, Expanding many Aegean islands, Making lakes and rivers in the Sahara (i.e Lake Volta, Lake Qattara, The Mauretania River, The Maghreb Sea) New Corinth in the Black Sea, A connected Malta, Phoenicia island beneath Cyprus, and the Red Nile in northeast Egypt.

## Wars

#### **The Holy Roman - Byzantine Conflict**

Dates between - unknown, likely started in December 2020.

This is when L9J and ByzqntineEmpire were in a stalemate as were sort of just lavacasting each other a few times over and not really getting along, so it does not have much depth.

#### **1st Coalition War**

As ByzqntineEmpire accidentally brought a very toxic player on the server, GS5J, he got into a conflict with Marco4500. Byz had to defend him along with InacurateBen123, and after which they declared war to end what Byz had started. They brought as many people as they could to show intimidation. GS5J tried to run, but a few well timed and aimed shots from Byz ended him. They overclaimed him and lavacasted him to show him a lesson: do not be toxic, and try to cooperate.

#### **Second ColonyCraft World War**

This is when Venderson ambushed and killed ByzqntineEmpire in Afghanistan to claim Iraq, in which he succeeded. With help of some of Byz's allies, he revolted against him, and the battle took them to interior Kabul. The fighting was harsh, yet eventually Byz and his allies overcame the forces of The Crown. For reasons still unknown, Venderson blew up Kabul and Inacurateben123 raised it from the ashes.

#### **Constantinople's Recapture**

During the age of IIMarkTempleII, Constantinople was briefly taken by him and blown up. It was soon after liberated by Irish forces, later Laghima, which ambushed and killed Mark Temple, and he eventually quit for a long time, until he came back under a new name, JP\_Jones.

#### **Madagascar Ambush**

During the time of SkyBound, a player who's name is unknown and a player named RyRyOnSmarties attempted to ambush Byz by throwing him off a cliff on the date of 09/07/2020. They attempted to shove him off the cliff then go in like a vulture, but luckily he had food on him and was able to regenerate. RyRy had an elytra and Byz killed them fairly easily with his sword. The Unknown player tried to fly away but was shot by Byz at the end. They returned once afterwards but after that never returned.

## Trivia

Byz has a relic room that long after he is gone will maybe be discovered by you. It holds many relics, such as Reichskrieg's old things and bedrock.

Byz also used to be the richest person on the server before towny came and he spent all his money on claiming land.

The Byzantine Empire was once the largest nation on the server.

## History During Lands

Byz started on an unknown date, which he believes to be in August 2020, when the server was mostly new. and he was fairly small at most times, just owning Thrace. After this he was able to obtain lands such as Athens, Thessaloniki, the Peloponnese, Epirus, Smyrna, etc. Basically Greece. He quickly became allies with simonyaa and Hardeharhar7, later 1shadowmaster, and things were relatively peaceful. The Haiga Sophia was built on the remains of the Castle Byz built that he decided did not fit the theme. He later constructed a big Ancient Greek style structure behind said Haiga Sophia.