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Post Muslim conquest, when is the latest the Eastern Empire could plausibly retake Egypt?

At a guess I'd say a more successful Macedonian dynasty- either a longer lived Romanos II springboarding from Syria down the coast or a successor to Basil taking advantage of the Seljuk invasion of the East (assuming that, with political stability and leadership, the Turks will be diverted more towards Egypt and the Levant than Anatolia), or perhaps even during the Crusader period if the Normans are butterflied and the Empire can keep a tighter leash on the Latins.

The Ottomans were able to take Egypt with territory roughly analogous to Basil's empire, after all, so if Egypt is as weak as it was under the Fatimids whilst Constantinople is strong (as is posited in a Macedonian PoD) then I think they could manage it.
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