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The challenge is to create a situation in which a Bulgarian Empire exists in the Balkans and acts effectively as a non-foreign entity for the Greek population in the region... while still having the actual Byzantine Empire in Anatolia, Aegean and Thrace, kinda like the mid 10th century situation, but possibly even making the Byzantine lose Thessaloniki(and possibly the Bulgarians moving their capital there?) and the Peloponnese.

The idea is to have this Bulgarian state be more of a Greek friendly state rather than being hostile to Greek institutions like it was historically, but still have an Anatolian centered Byzantine state around that solidly holds onto Constantinople and the Hellespont.
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