Dolan
Banned
Background: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Yahya
It is quite amusing that the Greeks could be conquered, but somehow they always end up conquering their own conquerors.
One hundred and sixty-five years after Fall of Constantinople in 1453, it would be the Orthodox army under the leadership of then Prince Yahya, son of then Sultan Murad III, end up taking control of the city in 1618, where the Patriarch of Constantinople end up crowning him not as an Ottoman Sultan, but as the New Roman Emperor Alexander II of the Restored Eastern Roman Empire.
Sure, even with his and his successors' efforts to reclaim the lost Roman Lands in the East, the Revived Roman Empire could only take Asia minor while the Turks and their later Muslim successor states end up keeping the Levantine area and Egypt.
Of course, by the 19th century, the Revived Eastern Roman Empire has been basically indistinguishable from the other European monarchs and has very close ties with the Russian Empire, being fellow Orthodox (and let's be fair, many of Basileos Alexandros II's men being Russian Volunteer fighting side by side with Greeks).
So... Let's say that in this scenario, Prince Yahya failed to take Constantinople by inciting Greek Rebellions against their Ottoman overlords, and thus there is no Yahyanid Restoration of the Roman Empire. Let's assume the Ottoman would then stay at the Balkans...
What will happen Next?
It is quite amusing that the Greeks could be conquered, but somehow they always end up conquering their own conquerors.
One hundred and sixty-five years after Fall of Constantinople in 1453, it would be the Orthodox army under the leadership of then Prince Yahya, son of then Sultan Murad III, end up taking control of the city in 1618, where the Patriarch of Constantinople end up crowning him not as an Ottoman Sultan, but as the New Roman Emperor Alexander II of the Restored Eastern Roman Empire.
Sure, even with his and his successors' efforts to reclaim the lost Roman Lands in the East, the Revived Roman Empire could only take Asia minor while the Turks and their later Muslim successor states end up keeping the Levantine area and Egypt.
Of course, by the 19th century, the Revived Eastern Roman Empire has been basically indistinguishable from the other European monarchs and has very close ties with the Russian Empire, being fellow Orthodox (and let's be fair, many of Basileos Alexandros II's men being Russian Volunteer fighting side by side with Greeks).
So... Let's say that in this scenario, Prince Yahya failed to take Constantinople by inciting Greek Rebellions against their Ottoman overlords, and thus there is no Yahyanid Restoration of the Roman Empire. Let's assume the Ottoman would then stay at the Balkans...
What will happen Next?