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There are basically two possible scenarios here. Suggesting a means to get to either one is fine. No limit on the POD but obviously it's implausible to have the Ottomans to still rise to prominence amid the other Turks if you set it too far back.

1. Byzantium still holds Constantinople, which is its capital, and Lydia; the rest of Anatolia, and any amount of land in the Caucasus and the Levant etc., is an Ottoman empire ruled from an Anatolian city.

2. The Ottomans hold Constantinople, which is their capital, and any amount of Anatolia etc; the Byzantines, however, still hold all the Balkans as a single unified state with an imperial capital somewhere in Europe.

This overall state of affairs should persist until at least 1600, though this does not preclude wars sending the borders back and forth a bit.

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