I guess there are a few ways this could come about. Any other ideas how this could happen and what effects it would have?
1. The Eastern bishops don't break with Rome. How would this affect the history of the Islamic Expansion?
2. The Balkans are as throughly Islamicized as Egypt and the Middle East, and for some reason Russia doesn't adopt the Orthodox Church. Would the Ottoman Empire still dissolve as it did, or would nationalism in the Balkans not develop as it did OTL?
3. Maybe the Latin Empire is super-successful and manages to convert most of the Balkans to the Roman Catholic Church. Then, when the Turks expand, they absorb and convert the remaining few Orthodox communities in Asia Minor, while conquering a mostly Catholic Balkan penninnsula.
That's about all I have for that.
EDIT: Lets go for limited Orthodox Christianity. So not dominant anywhere. Was just throwing some ideas out there. Please don't take the "no" as a literal 0% Orthodox population.
1. The Eastern bishops don't break with Rome. How would this affect the history of the Islamic Expansion?
2. The Balkans are as throughly Islamicized as Egypt and the Middle East, and for some reason Russia doesn't adopt the Orthodox Church. Would the Ottoman Empire still dissolve as it did, or would nationalism in the Balkans not develop as it did OTL?
3. Maybe the Latin Empire is super-successful and manages to convert most of the Balkans to the Roman Catholic Church. Then, when the Turks expand, they absorb and convert the remaining few Orthodox communities in Asia Minor, while conquering a mostly Catholic Balkan penninnsula.
That's about all I have for that.
EDIT: Lets go for limited Orthodox Christianity. So not dominant anywhere. Was just throwing some ideas out there. Please don't take the "no" as a literal 0% Orthodox population.
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