manzikert

In OTL, Alp Arslan learned that Romanos was marching on Armenia while he was at Aleppo preparing to march against the Fatimids. We have had several threads talking about Byzantine Victories at Manzikert but, what if Alp Arslan hadn't learned that the Byzantines were marching toward Armenia and...

As the tin says, what if Eudokia, niece of the Patriarch of Constantinople, weds Romanos Diogenes as her first husband instead of Constantine Doukas ? Romanos was a successful military leader from a well connected family and so good looking that she fell in love with him later in her life anyway...

So IOTL, Alexios I Komnenos’s eldest brother, Manuel, died in spring of 1071. He was married to a female Diogenes and Romanos was increasingly relying on Manuel to lead militarily. After he died, Romanos had to rely on the traitorous Doukai who ultimately abandoned him at Manzikert. So what if...

"What greatness am I to muster when better men than me have come before? Am I too supposed to be great?" Attributed to Emperor Artemios I 'Keraunos' [2] Argynos [1], founder of the Imperial House of Argynos. -- I am often at what one could call an impasse for sources and functions; even as...

Imagine with a Byzantine victory at Manzikert or some other POD that keeps the empire strong in anatolia past the 11th century , is the concept of the crusade still likely to materialise? If yes, then when, and where might it strike? Still the Levant? Perhaps North Africa given its proximity...

Romanos IV Diogenes was the co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire with Michael X Doukas from 1068 to 1071 when he was captured at the battle of Manzikert by Alp Arslan. He was eventually released on the guarantee of a massive ransom of 1.5 million nomismata and another 360,000 annually...

As we all know, Rhomania beat back the Seljuk Turks in the Battle of Manzikert, which led to the Seljuks invading and conquering Egypt, but what if the Rhomanians had been defeated at Manzikert? Would Anatolia have fallen to the Seljuks or would it have merely been another defeat the Rhomanian...

Would there still be crusades? After all, the crusades started after the Byzantine emperor asked for help. The situation in Syria/Palestine would develop differently if the Byzantines had won at Manzikert. Of course, the answer depends on what would happen after Manzikert. Would the Byzantine...