AH Challenge: Christian Ottoman Empire

The Ubbergeek said:
Maybe an union?
It could end up being a conquest OTL- my thought was that Medmet II certainly thought he was continuing the Roman Empire, in fact "Roman Emperor" was one of his title, and there were quite a few holdovers from the Byzantine Government- for example, the Patriarchate.

A Christian Ottoman Empire might find it harder to conquer Palestine and Mesopotamia, both predominately Muslim by then... and of course the Hejaz is right out. (If they even bother)
 

Xen

Banned
I was thinking about this very scenario today, and was considering fleshing out a timeline about it, though I am not sure where to begin or how to get the Turks to accept Christianity rather than Islam. If the Turks are Christianized, then this could mean successful Crusader States so assuming the Turks conquer Constantinople on schedule, it shouldnt be too hard to see the Levant and Palestine, and maybe even Egypt having a majority Christian population at the conquest of Byzantium, and becoming loyal provinces of the Empire. With the Christian Ottoman Empire as a bulwark in the East then perhaps we see a Catholic Reconquista of North Africa rather than colonialization of the Americas which is instead left to the British, Dutch, and Danes.
 
I think you have to go back to the 5~600 and have the Romans Christianize Persia.
Followed by a Heretical Split. Arians? Nestorians?
Then the Muslims fail to take Persia in the 700's
The Turks are Christianized as they move across Persia.

Historians call the Turks the Ottoman Empire to distinguish the Orthodox Christian Empire from the Heretical Christian Empire.
 

Keenir

Banned
The Turks convert to Christianity relatively early on.

even in OTL, there are a lot of Turkish tribes who are majority Christian of one denomination or another.


or you could get the Pope to baptize Jem - Jem later becomes Caliph, but the Catholic historians stubbornly refuse to believe that the Ottomans are non-Christians now.
 
I have had idle thoughts about some absolutely crazy entity in the Mideast arising from Frederick Barbarossa actually arriving in the Holy Land with his army intact, winning some battles, and leaving before he eventually dies the Crusader states politically transformed and militarily reinvigorated. That situation could turn into something like this, but the twelfth century is not really that much my forte and I have my hands full at the moment...elsewhere.
 
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