I downloaded the version of your map at twcenter.net and I gotta say it is totally kickarse.

However, I'm a little curious as to why you included a land bridge between the Italian peninsula near Bari connecting to the Greek peninsula. Is this to foster Sicilian AI expansion? I can understand the land links elsewhere since they're all rather short, but this one is much longer than the rest of them.

Anyway, keep up the good work.