[Faction research topic]: The Great Moravia,Serbia, Anciliaries and titles.

[Heathen Storm]

Sooooo, preview soon?

That, my friend, will be a decision of the rest of the team

Plus we would need someone knowledgeable of the faction to write the preview, I don't know too much about them as Germanic and Norse are my areas of knowledge

[Majkl]

Well there is no much known at all Do you have anyone who speak Slovak or Czech? It could help you find some info. You could find some info here http://www.staramorava.euweb.cz/ ,but it is written in slovak language.

[Heathen Storm]

Well there is no much known at all Do you have anyone who speak Slovak or Czech? It could help you find some info. You could find some info here http://www.staramorava.euweb.cz/ ,but it is written in slovak language.

I don't believe we have anyone who can speak either. I'm not sure though.

[Majkl]

Well if I will success in my exams (I am in first semester and I liek it ) and will manage to not get kicked out of school I will translate the most important info I will find. I just do not have much time right now.

[demagogos nicator]

It looks similar to me with my free time, this semester it seems th exams are going to be extremly hard for me. However when the things start to go well for me I could also contribute to translation.

[matija191]

About those 4 axes:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Ra%C5%A1ka.jpg

First one (from the left) is dated to 14-16th C., second one to the same period and the last one to the 15-16th century.My source is actually a serbian one:

Marko Alkesić - Weapons from medieval collection of National Museum in Belgrade, Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva

Axe found in the Danube (cat. no. 5 fig. 2/1) has according to certain similarity with the find from the Iron Gates been dated generally in the 14th-16th centuries. Battle-axe from the unknown site (cat. no. 6; fig. 2/2) on the basis of analogies with specimens from Serbia and Croatia as well as the painting representation of the axes from Russia dates from the 15th-16th century. Axe of large dimensions found in Smederevo (cat.no. 7; fig. 2/3) is the most similar to two axes also originating from Smederevo and belongs to the period between the 14th and 16th century.

So, those axes (except the third one), are out of the mod's time-frame.

[Heathen Storm]

Well if I will success in my exams (I am in first semester and I liek it ) and will manage to not get kicked out of school I will translate the most important info I will find. I just do not have much time right now.

It looks similar to me with my free time, this semester it seems th exams are going to be extremly hard for me. However when the things start to go well for me I could also contribute to translation.

That would be great please contact me when you both have time and we will try to get some information done!

[phoenix[illusion]]

thanks for update

here's some swords from balkans of early meadievals

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

1.Ston
2.Mogorjelo
3.Beograd
4.Ohrid
5.Knin
6.Knin
7.Pridraga
8.Knin

[AnthoniusII]

Great Counterpoint381's "viking" swords we already use can be modified to accuratly show those swords.
Also Absinthia's german swords can be used for the same reason.
Luckily in this point we have the needed sources.

[Majkl]

I checked historical magazines in our university library today, found some articles about Morava. Unfortunately it will be closed until the end of holidays so Ill come back in January.

[AnthoniusII]

I checked historical magazines in our university library today, found some articles about Morava. Unfortunately it will be closed until the end of holidays so Ill come back in January.

Thanks!
No worries we can use the material after hollidays.

[AnthoniusII]

The TGC fellowship wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year.
May all your wishes and dreams come true.

[Dominick]

Well thank you, same wishes go for you too!

[leif_erikson]

Merry Christmas everyone.

[demagogos nicator]

Merry Christams and Happy New Year

[NikeBG]

Merry Christmas and Happy Christian New Year (the Bulgar one passed 7 days ago, but we've been recently converted and as loyal subjects of our lord, it seems we'll be joining your Roman ways in a few days instead)!

[_Tartaros_]

thank you and vica verca

"guten Rutsch" (good slide into) 2013

[Cvetko]

Thank you and same to you!

[AnthoniusII]

Here are some episodes of a great history series of the past.
Those episodes will help you understand better the world and the time TGC mod refairs most.

Western Tradition

The "Byzantine" Empire

The Dark Ages

The Age of Charlemagne.

The middle Ages

The fall of Byzantium (generic infos that are valuable).

In the end it has no matter if all of us agree in everything we read or see but by reading and see we make our knowlege horizons wider.

[Marcus Ulpius Nerva Trajanus]

Isn't the part in the first video about golden lions and birds a romanced and somehow obviously inaccurate view of an imperial audience written down by a varangian dignitary ?

I remember a text like this from a school history book of mine, ages ago...