Bulgar Empire in the Middle East and North Africa

What if the Bulgars manage to conquer Constantinople, ruling all of Greece, and Anatolia, eventually want to continue the legacy of Rome in Northern Africa ?
 
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I would say that, even if they had a few engineers, they wouldn't have the capacity (manpower/technology) to breach into Constantinople. More powerful people tried and failed.

After that, they'd need to defeat the arabs
 
I would say that, even if they had a few engineers, they wouldn't have the capacity (manpower/technology) to breach into Constantinople. More powerful people tried and failed.

After that, they'd need to defeat the arabs

Maybe if they go Muslim instead of Christian like the Volga Bulgars or later the fellow Turkic Seljuks (ln OTL it was a close call) they could be like an Early Medival Ottoman Empire and claim to be the rightful rulers of Islam and challenging the Umayyads and others. Maybe if they ally with Saracens in order to do a joint operation against Constantinople. But yes the Walls were hard to breach, and the Byzantines had the Greek fire, which gave them the edge, despite being threatened from all sides.
 
Maybe if they go Muslim instead of Christian like the Volga Bulgars or later the fellow Turkic Seljuks (ln OTL it was a close call) they could be like an Early Medival Ottoman Empire and claim to be the rightful rulers of Islam and challenging the Umayyads and others. Maybe if they ally with Saracens in order to do a joint operation against Constantinople. But yes the Walls were hard to breach, and the Byzantines had the Greek fire, which gave them the edge, despite being threatened from all sides.


Until later periods a state entity could not convert to Islam outside the domain of the Khilafah without submitting to the rule of the Caliph. Which is why the Khazars did not convert, nor did Turks right on the edge of Dar al-Islam. Any major state so close to the rising Rashidun state would not convert out of pride and would likely fall victim to their invasion the same as Byzantium and Sassanid powers where. Further why would they convert to an unproven religion?

The Saljuks only converted due to their presence as mercenaries within the various Islamic entities if Iran and Iraq. Them and the Ghaznavids are both products of Mamluk activity and cause of Turkish migration inwards to Turkey and elsewhere. The Volga Bulgars are a different matter due to its distance and was after the weakening of the Khilafah that it's conversion was finalized and name changing and knowledge of the religion began in that region. Many people on this site attempt to draw the correlation between Volaga Bulgaria and whoever they want to be Muslim early on and frankly it never makes sense to me.
 

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What if the Bulgars manage to conquer Constantinople, ruling all of Greece, and Anatolia, eventually want to continue the legacy of Rome in Northern Africa ?

The Bulgars don't have the necessary fleet or naval tradition to be able to crack into Constantinople.
 
What if the Bulgars manage to conquer Constantinople, ruling all of Greece, and Anatolia, eventually want to continue the legacy of Rome in Northern Africa ?

That is a nice scenario to have the Roman Empire to last.
At least in the Balkans. The Slavic-speaking Orthodox entity... Why not?
That has a good potential.

I am not sure about the North Africa though. That's pushing it...
 
That is a nice scenario to have the Roman Empire to last.
At least in the Balkans. The Slavic-speaking Orthodox entity... Why not?
That has a good potential.

I am not sure about the North Africa though. That's pushing it...

The Bulgars were not originally Slavic speaking. They were assimilated.
 
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