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As we all know, Rhomania beat back the Seljuk Turks in the Battle of Manzikert, which led to the Seljuks invading and conquering Egypt, but what if the Rhomanians had been defeated at Manzikert? Would Anatolia have fallen to the Seljuks or would it have merely been another defeat the Rhomanian Empire had at the hands of the Muslims which it recovers from? How does this affect Western Europe? Would we have still seen the failed crusade into Al-Andalus?
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