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The idea of lost romance speaking peoples intrigues me. The ‘what if’ of it of it all. African Romance seems to have survived in North-Western Africa, the Maghreb, until perhaps as late as the 13th or 14th centuries. Quoting Wikipedia; “African Romance was linked to Christianity, which survived in North Africa (outside of Egypt) until the 14th century. Spoken Latin or Romance is attested in Gabès by Ibn Khordadbeh; in Béja, Biskra, Tlemcen, and Niffis by al-Bakri; and in Gafsa and Monastir by al-Idrisi, who observes that the people in Gafsa ‘are Berberised, and most of them speak the African Latin tongue.’ In their quest to conquer the Kingdom of Africa in the 12th century, the Normans were aided by the remaining Christian population of Tunisia, who some linguists, among them Vermondo Brugnatelli, argue had been speaking a Romance language for centuries.” Taking African Romance as an example, ‘what if’ a British Romance speaking peoples survived in sufficient numbers to have also survive into the 11th century or later? Based on reconstructed languages provided by Paradox contributor Fabuloscriptor and with his permission, we explore this fantasy of Lost Romance speaking peoples and their cultures surviving in pockets in North Africa and Britain- and other places in successive updates.

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Crusader Kings III

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