Caliphate of São Bahrain

Name: Kingdom of Portugal
Government: Absolute Monarchy (Kingdom)
Language: Portuguese
Currency:Chalo/s
Capital: Lissabon
National Anthem: "A Portuguesa"
Leader: Tiago da Silva
Religion: Muslim (Sunnite)
Color: (157,2,26)

In the year of the lord AD 248, hundreds of portuguese sailors set sail to trade with the arabic and indian people. In 250 they reached Bahrain. The settlers from Portugal didn't go back home, they wanted to stay in Bahrain ,so the leader of the portuguese sailors, Tiago da Silva, merged his sailors with the Emirate of Bahrain. As a sign of honor, the new capital for the Emirate of Bahrain was found and it was named "São Tiago". 500 years later, the Islam came and converted the whole population of Bahrain and all of Arabia.
The Emir of Bahrain became a Caliph and the sailors from portugal began to build more ships, to convert more people to the Islam. This time, Bahrain had the best and biggest navy of the world with the best marines. Now the time has come to bring the Islam to everyone around the world!

If you want to talk to the King, request an audience here.

Ambassador Khunmhotep arrives by sea in a large and colorful Egyptian galley to the city of São Tiago. He is tall, tan, and wears a fine white linen shendyt, revealing his strong chest to everyone. He comes with his assistant, five guards, and a scroll from Queen Amunet VIII bearing instructions for him. He greets the guards of the city and requests an audience with Caliph Yusuf Al-Chalifa to discuss important matters with him on behalf of Egypt. He patiently waits for a response as he strokes his goatee.

A Janissary from the Royal Household Guard, comes to you.

Good day egyptian,

You want an audience? Then please follow me.


He enters the waiting room and 2 more guards open the big gates of the Throne Room of Caliph Yusuf.

"Greetings mighty Caliph!" Ambassador Khnumhotep bows before Yusuf. "I wish you good health and prosperity. I come on behalf of my Pharaoh and Queen to request trade agreements with your nation. Egypt has a surplus of wheat, granite statues, and cotton that we would be willing to ship to you. In exchange, my people would appreciate shipments of spices, coffee, and shrimp. What do you say to this trade proposal, lord?

Before you answer that though, I would like to discuss the region of Suez. It has come to my Queen's attention that you wish to build a great canal that connects the Mediterranean to the Red sea. This is all very well, but we Egyptians would like control over the region so as to launch campaigns against the Levantines. Therefore I propose that we agree to this treaty:

Proposed Suez Treaty between Egypt and Bahrain

• Bahrain shall build the Suez Canal
• Upon completion of the canal, Bahrain shall gift the Suez region to Egypt
• Bahrain shall have complete control over the Suez canal (the important city in the region will belong to Schwertbruder while the region it is in belongs to Warrior Cat) and may pass whatever fleets it wants to through it.
• Egypt promises to build no fleets in the Red Sea

What do you say to this proposal as well, lord?" Khnumhotep waits patiently for a reply.

This treaty sounds good to me, Khmumhotep. We will accept it.

We accept the trade agreement if you could send us some of your workers who built the pyramids, so the work at the channel goes faster.

The Egyptian ambassador did his best to keep from laughing, but a little chuckle did escaped his lips. "The workers who built the pyramids during the Old Kingdom (2686 - 2181BCE) are all dead, great king. After the Old Kingdom, it became more common for tombs to be built within the rock of secret valleys. Pyramids are kind of impractical since they say to robbers: 'I'm a giant landmark for a tomb full of treasure' and encourages them to rob the tombs. We prefer our tombs to be hidden to protect the possessions of our past pharaohs and priests and so pyramids have gone out of use. We haven’t built any pyramids for thousands of years.

However, as soon as the expansion of our glorious capital, Memphis, into a magnificent city is completed we will send teams of workers to assist you with the construction of the canal. I thank you for agreeing to Egypt’s proposals and will report these good tidings to my Queen and Pharaoh. I bid you farewell, lord.” Khnumhotep bows and prepares to leave.

Farewell, Khnumhotep. I will send a ship to escort you to Suez.

Originally Posted by Prinz Ferdinand

Our surrender template:
-Caliphate of São Bahrain gifts all its mainland Arabian territories to Egypt
-Permanent peace between both factions
-Caliphate of São Bahrain won't move into mainland Arabia anymore
-The Channel of Suez is free passable for Bahrainian ships

Ambassador Hebeny of Egypt arrives at Bahrain to discuss peace terms with the ruling Caliph. The Caliph had sent Egypt a message saying he wished to discuss peace and so Queen Amunet VIII sent Ambassador Hebeny to do so. She brings along the old peace terms as laid out by her Queen quite a few years ago:

Originally Posted by Warrior Cat

Rhodes, Northern and Southern Hejaz, ‘Asir, and North-western Nefud must be relinquished to Egyptian control. Bahrain fleets in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean and Red Seas must be scuttled. The island of Zakinthos must be relinquished to Illyrian control. All Bahrain territory in Pakistan and India must be relinquished to Gandhara control.

Some of it was now irrelevant since Egypt had conquered through its awesome military might the regions in Arabia mentioned, but most of it Egypt and her allies still insisted on being agreed to. Hebeny reads over the Bahrain proposal and then states that Egypt is not interested in any more Arabian regions. Therefore Egypt doesn’t care about Bahrain expansion in the Arabian Peninsula. Also Egypt cannot agree to permanent peace for there will most likely in the future be an event that forces us to war again. We can agree to just peace for now. The Egyptian ambassador draws up a new treaty:

Proposed Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Bahrain

• The Caliphate of São Bahrain will scuttle (destroy) two of its magnificent-size war fleets in the Old World waters to ensure balance of power on the seas.
• The Caliphate of São Bahrain will gift the island of Zakinthos (if that’s still considered a separate region) to the Despotate of Illyria.
• The Caliphate of São Bahrain will gift all its regions in India and Pakistan to the Queendom of Gandhara.
• The Newer Kingdom of Egypt will allow Bahrain fleets free passage through the Suez Canal once again.
• Hostilities between the Caliphate of São Bahrain and the Newer Kingdom of Egypt and its allies will cease unless the Caliphate declares war on one of Egypt’s allies.

A map is included that shows the territorial changes and the new spheres of influence between all four factions involved:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Basically the two main points are: 1) reduce Bahrain’s outrageous naval power to make Egypt and its allies feel safer and 2) Bahrain must give regions to Egypt’s allies to reduce the chance of war happening between Bahrain and Egypt in the future. “Will you agree to this, lord?” the lady Hebeny asks.

"Yes, me Lady. Those conditions are fine. Except one. We would like to hold our colony Karachi in lower Pakistan. It's one region and we want to use it as a trading post as we did the last years."

"Very well, we will let you retain that one region in southern Pakistan. I'm sure the queen of Gandhara will be understanding. With the reduction of your war fleets, your threat to her lands will be diminished. I thank you, lord, for agreeing to this treaty." Hebeny stamps the scroll of papyrus with the Eye of Horus and signs her name before giving it to the caliph to sign.

OOC: I'll change my diplomatic status with you to neutral once you have made the announcement of territorial changes and deletion of two magnificent fleets on the main thread. Cheers! WC

Ambassador Ptahhotep arrives in São Tiago, the bustling capital of the Bahrain Caliphate, an empire on which the sun might never set as it seems to stretch across the globe. He comes to meet with the current Caliph with this message from Egypt’s new Queen, Nefertari IXX: “Years of peace have passed between us and the Land of the Riverbank has new rulers. I and my cousin, the Pharaoh, wish to re-establish friendly relations with the Caliphate like they were in the old days. Egypt offers trade agreements to the Portuguese Arabs. We would export wheat, granite, rice, and cotton in exchange for spices, coffee, exotic beasts and birds from this New World, and shipbuilding materials such as sails and rigging. Would you accept such agreements and wish to improve relations with us, mighty lord?"