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What would the world be like today if either:

1. The land of OTL Greece becomes Bulgarian during the Bulgarian Empire and all of Antolia is, as OTL, Turkish, thus the Greeks are either gone completely or are only left as small pockets in Anatolia and Cyprus, or

2. OTL Greece is entirely Turkicized (as with Anatolia) sometime during the Ottoman era, leaving only Greek pockets here and there and perhaps a Greek Peloponnese

What impact would this have on the world, how can this happen and how would the Greek culture, language etc of the past be viewed today? Would it be seen as a great tragedy that they disappeared from the world or would it just be seen as another one of many cultures that was assimilated by another culture?

Disclaimer: I am not anti-Greek or in any way racist, I'm just interested to know how this would impact history.
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