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The Seljuk Turks were still only superficially Islamicised at the time of the Battle of Manzikert, and there were supposedly some Byzantines at the time who thought that they might be persuaded to abandon Islam for Orthodox Christianity. Obviously that never happened, but is there any way it could have done? And what difference would it make to world history? Assuming, for example, that Constantinople ends up falling to the Turks anyway, would the ALT-*Ottoman Empire be considered a continuation of the Byzantine Empire rather than a replacement of it?
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