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With any POD you want have an altOttomans conquer roughly the are of european russia and hold there until the early modern period. Doesnt need to be tatars or bolghar bulgarians, just need to be turkic and muslims. Bonus points if it leads to a serbocroatian like division of eastern slavic peoples: catholic east slavs historivally dominated by Poland or Lithuania (Ruthenians as croats, and Poland Lithuania as Austro-Hungary), east slavic orthodox Rus (so vanilla russians as altserbians) and of course a muslim east slavic poeple as alt Bosniaks. Maybe continue with exagerated paralelism and have the eurasian steppes become an anatolian equivalent: sparcely populated asiatic lands inhabitated by muslim turkic people but neglected by the europe centered dynasty.
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