byzantine screw

The son of a Seljuk prince who lost a dispute for the throne, Suleiman ibn Qutalmish took advantage of the civil wars that engulfed the Byzantine Empire after the Battle of Manzikert to take over most of Anatolia during the 1070s, laying the foundations of a new state, the Sultanate of Rum...

Samuel was the last great ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, and his reign was dominated by a long, grueling war against the Byzantines. Samuel got off to a strong start, scoring a crushing victory at the Battle of the Gates of Trajan, but his Byzantine counterpart, Basil II, eventually got...

Alexios I had a very hard time at the beginning of his reign as the Eastern Roman Emperor, having inherited an empire wrecked by years of civil war and the loss of Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert. As if that weren't enough, he had to deal with the Normans who, one decade after conquering...

The sultan of Rum from 1092 until his premature death in 1107, Kilij Arslan I was the first Muslim monarch to face a crusade, easily defeating the disorganized peasant army led by Peter the Hermit in October 1096. Unfortunately for him, the scale of his victory made him think the sultanate's...

Peter Delyan was a grandson of Samuel, the last emperor of Bulgaria, who led a massive uprising against the Byzantine Empire in 1040-41. The revolt was immensely successful at first, and the rebels quickly took over much of western Bulgaria, Macedonia and northern Greece. However, it collapsed...

Sviatoslav I was a very active leader of the Kievan Rus' who led several military campaigns in multiple directions, destroying the Khazar Khaganate and briefly conquering Bulgaria. The latter conquest led to a war with the Byzantine Empire, which finally put an end to his string of victories by...

The Bulgarian empire was long the scourge of byzantium, even laying siege to constantinople in 923 and 24. however civil war and eventually Basil The Bulgar Slayer brought them to heel. ... until empire 2. Your goal is to reverse fortunes, and have the Bulgarians crush the Byzantines. From...

The Battle of the Masts was one of the most pivotal and disastrous naval battles in Byzantine history. Most of the 500 ships were destroyed in a day, and it proved the mettle of the Muslims on the seas. Emperor Constans II barely escaped by trading clothes with another man and being disguised as...

The Crucible Century By Klara N. Kawakatus Markus Sverre University, Stadakona Campus 12/18/2019 The course of the modern world was radically altered during the years between 1279 and 1426, often called the ‘Bloody Century’ due to the many deaths caused by the great political, social and...

Peter Delyan was a Bulgarian noble from Byzantine Balkans who, in 1040, claimed descent from the last Bulgarian Emperor, Samuel I, and rose up in rebellion against the central Byzantine imperial administration with local support, aiming to restore Bulgaria's independence. His revolt was the only...

Before the Fall: The Venetian Expedition of 1280 (Kriti) The First Genoese-Mangyup War (1280) (Gothia) The Rhomano-Angevin War: The Fall...

After Judea was depopulated of Jews following the Jewish-Roman Wars, the vaccuum for the following few centuries was filled by Christians and Samaritans. Apparently, the Samaritans executed a number of revolts against the Eastern Roman Empire between the late 5th and late 6th centuries. One of...

In the years after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Manzikert (1071), the Byzantine Empire seemed to be breaking down at the seams. The Turks were invading Anatolia and raided all the way to the western coast, the Normans were raiding Epirus and Greece, and the Pechenegs were raiding the...

I've been wanting to hear your guys opinions on who else would have been a good candidate for becoming the empire to end the Byzantines. Planning on making an alt history scenario based on this, just a simple poll though for now.

Since rhomans tend to fall back on their heartland in Anatolia, from which they always subsequently recower, what can put their statehood to an end?

I know that this is something of a blasphemous question given how many Byzantophiles there are on this forum, but how early could the Byzantines/ERE have been destroyed?