The Byzantines in mine game was reduced to Bulgaria and Serbia after losing Anatolia and the rest of modern day Turkey and then Greece by invasion even though it was retaken by a crusade and then splintered as the new owner refused to move capital for the first 20 years.. Well, they've made a slight comeback:
I guess they figured that the whole orthodoxy was a bad deal without the holy orders, because 100 years ago they switched to catholicism and now they have reconquered Nikia, Thrace and Anatolia (admittedly I personally helped that last one). Now there is a crusade for what remains of muslim Greece and I guess the kingdom of Greece (I think they get the new lands won, or do the Byzantines since they're catholic now? Does the empire or the kingdom take priority?) And the Byzantine Empire and Kingdom of Greece shall forever fight about who has the best shade of purple..
I guess they figured that the whole orthodoxy was a bad deal without the holy orders, because 100 years ago they switched to catholicism and now they have reconquered Nikia, Thrace and Anatolia (admittedly I personally helped that last one). Now there is a crusade for what remains of muslim Greece and I guess the kingdom of Greece (I think they get the new lands won, or do the Byzantines since they're catholic now? Does the empire or the kingdom take priority?) And the Byzantine Empire and Kingdom of Greece shall forever fight about who has the best shade of purple..