The Judeo-Roman Empire (1253 - N/A) [Total Campaign Time: 151 years]
Ruled from Constantinople, the Judeo-Roman Empire is a newly created state formed through a union between the Romans around the Black Sea and the Jews around the Red Sea. It was created by the Gideons who were an originally Ethiopian family who heavily intermixed with Ashkenazi families and adopted Greek culture. At its inception, the Judeo-Roman Empire dominates Egypt, Nubia, Somalia, much of Ethiopia, Arabia, Levant, Mesopotamia and the Black Sea.
1 January 1102 - 1 February 1147: King Radi I Ironside Gideon of the Nubians
The first seeds of expansion was sparked by Rabi, originally the king of Axum and Semien. His wars in the latter part of his life saw the seizure of Nubia and his crowning as the king of the Nubians in 15 July 1133. He would pass away aged 77 bedridden and infirm. His only son, Zadok, had died before him and thus his mixed race granddaughter, Amhara, succeeded him.
1 February 1102 - 13 June 1177: Queen Amhara I the Pious Gideon of the Nubians and Abyssinians
Amhara succeeded her grandfather aged 22. Her mother was a Sephardi Jew. She successfully conquered Hejaz in 1156 during the latter part of her reign. This was a major moment as it saw the Jewish capture of the holy Islamic cities of Medina and Mecca. However, she quickly lost the region five years later to Caliph Ashraf I Fatimid. However, she did successfully keep hold on Medina whilst was lost the following year to the Seljuks. The same year she conquered Hejaz, she crowned herself as Queen of Abyssinia. Controversially, she became a Shia to avoid a jihad by the Fatimids; her son, Taye, however, refused to convert. It was during this time as a Shia that she ended her conquests of the entirety of Nubia and southern Egypt. She would die aged 53 due to old age.
13 June 1177 - 24 March 1182: King Taye I Gideon of the Nubians and Abyssinians
Taye succeeded his mother aged 33. He successfully seized Alexandria establishing it as his new capital. Unlike his Shia mother and Jewish grandfather, Taye was a Samaritan. He died 38 due to cancer.
24 March 1882 - 2 December 1224: Emperor Machir I the Lionheart Gideon of Beta Israel
Machir I succeeded his father aged 12 and would go to become the greatest Gideon emperor. Unlike his father, he was a Jew. In 1187 he founded the Republic of Sinai after conquering the region from the Fatimids. In 1197, he finally seized the entirety of Egypt and crowned himself as King of the Egyptians. A few months later, he crowned himself as Emperor of Beta Israel in 18 April 1198. A 28 year old Machir I was crowned by his wife, Tziporah Binyamin, in Alexandria. Just two years later, he repelled a Fatimid jihad and sacked Damascus. Four years later, he conquered Jerusalem and moved the imperial capital there. His son and heir, Elazar, married the Norman-Greek Jewish empress of the Romans [Byzantium], Benedetta di Leece. Her family, however, had adopted Italian culture despite ruling over a Greek population. In 1211, the Viceroy of Egypt, Yisrael of Magnesia, conquered Medina. The Viceroy was a Sephardi from Anatolia. To celebrate this conquest, a great tournament was held in 1213 within the capital. In 1219, he sacked Rome to defend his daughter in law, the Roman empress, from a Crusade. She, however, died the same year from wounds sustained whilst with the army in the Levant. Machir passed away aged 54 due to cancer.
2 December 1224 - 22 December 1253: Emperor Teferi I the Witch Hunter Gideon of Israel
Teferi succeeded his father aged 18. His wife was his neice, Basilissa Yehudit of the Romans. In 1231, Viceroy Yisrael (now known as the Cleansing Flame) conquered Mecca sparking celebrations amongst the Jewish populace. The same year, however, Pope Callistus III was successful in the Greek Crusade and seized Greece from the Jewish Basilissa. Emperor Airfhindan the Hammer de Normandie of Alba was crowned as King of the Greeks due to his contributions to the crusade. The Roman court would move from Constantinople to Theodosia (within Crimea). In 1247, construction began on the Third Temple, something Machir I never got around to building. Two years later, the 'Kingdom of David' was declared on the 8th September 1249 following the conquest of Beirut. A great tournament was held to celebrate this and two years later on the 18th July 1251, the Third Temple was completed. A descendant of Aaron, Berhanu, was found and was made the first Kohen Gadol of a new era. Berhanu was an Ethiopian but it would be an Ashkenazi, Yoel of Marawi, who would become Grandmaster of the Zealots. The Jewish world would declare a great holy war against the Buddhist Mongols who had entered the Middle East. Teferi I joined the great war and marched into Mesopotamia becoming a Kanai. In 16 January 1253, he stormed Baghdad with an army of 20,000 Levantites and Egyptians made up mostly of Muslims. This brought the war to an end with Mesopotamia being annexed into the Empire. In the end, Teferi I commited suicide by jumping off the tallest tower in Jerusalem to his death so that he may be with god, he was 47.
13 April 1243 [22 December 1253] - [onwards]: Basilissa Nonna I the Witch Hunter Gideon of the Romans and Jews
She succeeded her mother, Yehudit I, as Basilissa of the Roman Empire and would succeed her father as Basilissa of Israel following his suicide. She was proclaimed as Basilissa of the Romans and Jews aged 25. With the resources of her father's empire, she would begin the reclamation of former Roman lands. She, however, did not share the culture of her ancestors with her speaking and thinking in Greek and neither did she share physical similarities with her ancestors with her rather looking like her Norman ancestors from her mother's ancestors.
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