Basil II Lives, Conquers Sicily?

Assume Basil II leaves a capable heir, and Sicily ends up conquered by the Byzantines. we've talked about the effects on the crsuades; but what would the effects on Italy, and Sicily itself be?

Unlike Baisl's conquests on the borders of Anatolia, Sicily has a large Muslim population; and of course it's gone its own way in the past. Would Sicily be likely to end up Greek over the long term?
 
Sicily also still has a large Greek population as well. In fact, it was extremely diverse in general. I think the Byzantine government would have to face that fact head on and learn to deal with the various minorities, probably by playing them off each other as they are want to do.

In the long run, Southern Italy would be more Greek, possibly up into the present day.
 
Byzantine policy by the time was on the one hand to work with the local elites in the areas it conquered, but on the other to bring in some external population to balance things out (population transfers were nothing new). Thus Muslims remained under imperial rule in Syria, but they were balanced out by an influx of Jacobite Arabs and Armenians. You might easily see Normans or Lombards (as IOTL) and perhaps even people from the Balkans or the East brought into a reconquered SIcily. Assuming that Byzantine rule persevered, the Muslims would probably survive, as a tributary population, for a few centuries before being assimilated and/or their remnants evicted. A process of hellenization would certainly be present and more marked than in S. Italy; the Byzantine Greek element on the island was strong, and popular Sicilian sympathies for the "Greeks" continued at least up to the Sicilian Vespers (although that might change when the imperial tax assessors appear on the scene).
 
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perhaps Romanian and Italian languages(Central and Southern dialects) have more contact and no GalloRomance enclaves in their domains
 
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