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Formed in 1721 at the Treaty of Lyons establishing a Union between the remainder kingdoms and republics of the

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Flag of the Latin Council of Europe

Catholic West, centered in Venice was an assembly of the provincial governors of their respective nations, voting on two supreme councils as executives. Serving three-year terms, in times of peace the Supreme Council can only run for three terms but in times of war they may stay indefinitely unless impeached by the council members. The Papacy since the Dark Ages had been the carrier of the Latin Legacy was at last reformed due to its corruption and failure was Despite the fact It had been forced tor recognize the Norse Church in the Early High Period, It now formally accepted all other Christian Sects with a note of "brotherhood and love" to Orthodox, Coptics, and Teutonic Christians. This law abolished also the Sales of Indulgences and the

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1721- The Latin Council of Europe in relation to states of that time.

Marriage Tax on the Clergy.


In the Treaty, the Council recognized itelf as the continuation of the Old Roman Republic,

The Second Renaissance[]

The previous centuries are called a renaissance scoping all of Europe in an new age of Enlightenment, however marking the unification their is a period often referred to as the Latin Renaissance. The return of Classical Values and free thought, stimulated the once declining economy and the will of an dispirited people as writer Giacomo Casanova describes,

"At the hands of Greeks and Barbarians people of Rome have lied in Rome for too long! But at the return of the Empire and Augustus they would take back the World which they had once lost, VICTA ROMA"

- The Lost who were Found


In February of 1722 Sebastiano Mocenigo was elected by his fellow governors as the first council, establishing a formal state funded education system and a modernized army, inviting Greek and Norse advisers to bring the SPQR to progress,.

Old structures of the past were began reconstruction Trajan's Forum, was completed in 1748

In November of 1726, there a skirmish between Italian Farmers and Byzantine Soldiers who had mistakenly had marched into the Kingdom of Naples ensued at the battle of Mefi, angry peasants ambushing a squad of Byzantine Regulars, killing nine soldiers and 25 peasants. Sebastiano used this as an excuse for war, declaring a state on Thanksgiving.

The Great War[]

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Blue - Byzantine Empire and Allies Red - Latin Council and Allies

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