Asia Minor

Western Asia Minor experienced numerous revolts from the death of the emperor Manuel to the Latin conquest of Constantinople, when the empire of Nicea was founded. WI: One of these revolts had actually succeeded, and western Asia Minor slipped from Byzantine control around 1190, and is ruled by a local leader from a city such as Philadelphia or Magnesia? Could this state have survived and what would have happend when the Latins took Constantinople in 1204?
 
Asia Minor.

The Seljuks (or later, the beyliks) would take advantage of a weak ruler of such a state and annex it eventually.
I think that such a state would last for at least a couple of centuries like Trepizond, since it would be relieved of the burden of trying to defend territories in Europe.
 
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