Starting Population     150                     % of Worldwide          0.5%                    

                                                Population                                      

Starting Income         2,386                   % of Worldwide          0.4%                    

                                                Income                                          

Starting GDP            39,353                  % of Worldwide GDP      0.6%                    

Starting Surplus        218                     % of Worldwide          0.7%                    

                                                Surplus                                         

10 fiefs in province                            Overlord:               de Savoy (5)
            

Kingdom: HRE:Italy

Comments: Savoy is a vaguely defined territory sprawled from the Isere River over the Alps into northern Italy and up around Lake Geneva, so that there are French, Italian, and German speaking areas. It controls the principal alpine passes into Italy from the northwest, thus bringing a measure of economic prosperity to the ruling House of Savoy, who are clever businessmen. In ancient times a part of the Roman Empire, during the Barbarian invasions different parts came under the rule of different tribes, the Transalpine regions falling to the Bugundians and the Cisalpine to the Ostrogoths and later the Lombards.

During the Dark Ages the area was often fought over, but in 1033 it became a feudatory of the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II, who gave it in fief to Humbert the Whitehanded, founder of the present dynasty. Reflecting the disparate nature of the marquisate, Ecclesiastical authority is shared among the Archbishops of Vienne and Embrun, in the Arelate, and Tarantaise in Savoy. There is a good deal of commercial enterprise, and some industry to support it, in addition to wool raising and various agricultural pursuits.