Nova Carthago

Nova Carthago is what remains of the Western Carthage Empire, the last remnant of the former Carthage Empire. Nova Carthago controls half of North Africa and southern Iberia.

Lore
After the Umayyad Invasion, Nova Carthago found itself in ruins. The weakened Empire was on the verge of disintegration and its enemies were more than eager to capitalize on its instability.

In the north, the Yberian opportunists invaded Iberia and took over everything except Gibraltar. Seeing that Nova Carthago was unable to adequately defend itself against so many enemies, the Bulgarian armies marched south and captured the part of the Strait of Gibraltar. Berbers have also been successful. After a few wars, Nova Carthago recovered part of North Africa and Southern Iberia. The only region where they could adequately defend themselves was in the city of Nova Carthago in Gibraltar.

Under the leadership of great generals, the imperial armies resisted the Berber invaders who sought to push their borders to the Carthagian lands and, finally, to besiege and capture the capital of Nova Carthago. They gathered the army and surprised the Berber forces in their own territory. They achieved triumphant victory and completely destroyed the unprepared Turkish forces. The victory in Karahisar guaranteed part of North Africa for the Carthaginians, but General Mohammed Suleiman came to fully understand the flaws of the Empire elsewhere. With the support of the nobles and his popularity among the troops, he betrayed the Emperor and declared independence, establishing the Empire of Maghrebia in lands he had just defended.

The years after the Carthage-Maghreb war were one of suffering and pain. The emperor tried to consolidate dominion over what was left of his empire. His successor then managed to forge a military alliance with the Franks. This was done with the aim of recovering the lands lost to the maghrebios after the war. The war came, but the forces of Nova Carthago and the Frankish Empire failed to connect and were crushed separately by the Maghrebians. After this mistake, Nova Carthago was forced to relinquish part of its territories in North Africa and to pay sufficient reparations to almost bankrupt the Empire.

In 1443, the Empire had barely recovered from its recent chain of military disasters when the Franco-Yberian War exploded in Iberia, half the army was slaughtered and the Empire almost collapsed.

In 1444, after measures by the Emperor, the economy began to slowly recover and all Carthageians hope for a better future.

National ideas
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