Only after the Habsburgs would start to openly embrace a Russian friendship that was directly aimed at undermining Imperial sovereignty in the Eastern Mediterranean was the cause for maintaining a friendship with the Austrians truly deemed as a lost cause. Both the royal houses of Russia and Austria would intermarry, and the bond between the two great empires would flourish. Having been an ally with the Elysians for many years, the Habsburgs newfound affinity with the Russians would prove deeply troublesome with relations between the Austrians. The Austrian Empire, one of the Tsardoms most loyal allies, had also served as a loyal ally for the Elysian Empire for largely serving to counteract Russian influence aimed at undoing the stability of the Exarchs. Only the most extreme cases would require the work of the Inquisition, an institution that was rarely used except within the most extreme cases within the Empire’s history. As the Elysian church would expand into North Africa, zealous priests argued that the muslim piracy was a response of a purely spiritual need to eliminate the enemies of Islam rather than a political motivation, which would encourage missionaries to travel along the coastline of Northern Africa. Many along coastal towns who had long lived in fear from such raids started to return back to their former homes, and Elysian influence persuaded former pirates to cease attacking their shipping outright.
The Elysian Senate would come to agree upon the need to suppress and eliminate piracy along the Barbary coast and North Africa, which would be completed with the invasion of Tunis.Īs soon as the piracy had stopped, the frequency of raids had almost completely stopped within the first year. Simply unable to stop Elysian expansion into the region, these Barbary Pirates started to avoid Elysian merchant ships outright and instead focus on taking slaves from independent European states or strike against the Elysian fleets themselves. While such raids would become commonplace with the start of the European Invasions, pirate attacks would start to diminish with the consolidation of Elysian gains within Europe and the establishment of the Exarchs. Serving as a problem Unofficially, these pirates would stop Elysian expansionism into North Africa by aiding the sultanates that were commonly under invasion. Piracy would become the main obstacle among supplying the exarchs across the Western Mediterranean, who’s primary objective was to capture Christian slaves to help supply the general Arab slave market. Mauretania, along with Aegyptus, now effectively controlled the entirety of the southern Mediterranean coastline and would come to establish diplomatic and economic primacy along its coastlines.ĭue to the amount of trade and ships that were traversing across the Mediterranean Sea, piracy would become a problem along the Maghreb and were largely carried out by Muslim Berbers. Now connected through a direct land route, both territories of the East and West were reunited together. Through the destruction of the last remaining obstacle to completely hegemony over Northern Africa, the Sultanate of Tunis would be dissolved immediately and incorporated into the Mauretanian Exarch. Chapter 54: War of the Three Eagles (1686-1690)
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