Board Thread:Fan Fiction/@comment-25344655-20160905201425

The scenario starts after the end of the Greco-Turkish war when the greeks win an even more decisive victory against the Turkish forces in the battle of Dorylain, instead of marching on Ankara they secure the Aegean coastline and Thrace, the weakened Turkey unable to push the Greeks out leads to the treaty of Lousanne. A ceasefire to the war and the redrawing of the maps, giving Greece back Constantinople. However during the war France and Italy silently supported Turkey, the Greeks found out about this and this led to not only a newfound hate for the two countries, but the entire west in general. In 1935 George II renamed the country to Byzantium, and proclaimed it seperate from the European west and the heirs to the Roman and Byzantine legacy.

[[File:New_Greek_borders.jpg|thumb|Light blue=Borders of Greece

Dark Blue= New Greek claims on Turkish Territory.]]In 1936 tensions had risen once again between Byzantium and Turkey, and tensions were rising dramatically from January-March. After insults came from Benito Mussolini proclaiming Byzantium "Unfit to claim the title of the Byzantines or the old Roman Empire." George II ordered troops to fire upon the Turks, sparking the second Greco-Turkish war. This, however was far more one sided, with the Byzantine troops marching on Ankara within the week, and Antioch not a month after. The surrender of Turkish troops occured on the 6th of September 1936. The resulting treaty was much more harsh than the last, with the Byzantines taking almost all of mainland Turkey, and puppeting the remainder in the southeast corner, with their new capital, Batman (Yes its a real city, look it up.)  [[File:Byzantine-Turkish_borders.jpg|thumb|left|Purple- Byzantium

Brown- Turkish State]]

After the Turkish Surrender, the Byzantines looked to reclaim the other lost territories of the Empire, and by december of 1936 their military had nearly tripled from the beginning of the year. The population eager to take up arms and serve for their empire in progress. The first target Byzantium set their eyes on was the tsardom of Bulgaria, which had long pestered the Greeks in the past. So on January 15th the Byzantine presented Bulgaria with an Ultimatum, surrender all lands to the Byzantine Empire, or be faced with war. The Bulgarians were quick to catipulate and Bulgaria was integrated into the Empire on the 24th of March of 1937. Next George II started throwing insults at Yugoslavia and Albania, calling them "Arrogant holders of true Roman lands" The Yugoslavian government rejected the claims of Byzantium, but Albania gave in, and Greek troops entered Albania on the 4th of September 1937. This led to anger from Italy, who claimed Albania as rightful Italian land. Soon after troops on the Dodecanese islands invaded Byzantine controlled Turkey on the 30th of November, sparking the Italian-byzantine war, Yugoslavia and Italy signed a pact of alliance to combat Byzantium, despite the tensions between Yugoslavia and Italy being tense at best...

Next part coming soon. 