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I'd suggest that there's a difference between merging and reabsorbing a wing. "Merging" is when 2 previously unrelated alliances decide to join forces.
What BLACK SEA had was an alliance that was bumping up against the membership limit so they split it in 3 pieces as a purely administrative move. Two of those wings were independently in the top 12. Now they're down to under 70 members so they've got 1 wing and some left overs. (According to grepostats BLACK SEA. has 15 members and 10 cities.) Bottom line: BLACK SEA is about half of what it was 2-3 weeks ago.
BS was 3 alliances in and of itself.