Antonio Constantine IV.

Constantine IV. or "Tony Costantine" is the son of Constantine III. and is the current Emperor of Byzantine.

Tony Constantine is a man with great asperations and longs to see the day when the Byzantines control the whole of Turkey.

Silently Tony is extremely racist and at all possible times will transplant native arabs in favor of the Italiens in his court or expansionary allies such as the Greeks, or Bulgarians.

Emperor
With his father dead he was crowned Emperor of Byzantium.



Expansion
Constantines desire to expand the Empire led him to many expansionary strategies, of which the first stage of which was the control of the eastern Mederateranian.

Western Expansion
In order to do this he went about campaigns against the Greeks and the Bulgarians. In only 2 years he pacified greece and expanded his holdings in Bulgaria.

The Islands
His next step was to get Cyprus and Crete into his realm of control along with Rhodes.

The Kingdom of Cyprus was already close with Byzantine and greatly feared the Nehekhara so it agreed to an alliance that made them a nearly independant nation.

Crete quickly as well saw an advantage to joining up with Byzantine after the quick fall of Greece left them very exposed.

Rhodes held onto its independance and for its resistence the Byzantines launched a massive armada to the small island and quickly overwhelmed them. With their defeat the Byzantines brought in Houses from there expansion territores who would rule over rhodes. In this way they rewarded their allies and at the same time destroyed the Rhodes Elite.

Moving Eastword
Nehekhara is without a doubt one of the largest empires in the entire world, and its size provides it one significant weakness. Because of its size it has such long borders that it can be easy to miss when one border is getting hot.