Eastern Romans reconquer the Balkans

What if the Eastern Roman Emperors Reconquered the Balkans after the Slavs settle and kept a hold on it?

What would happen to the Slavs,.who were already living there?

Would they be moved out/driven out of the Empire? Would they be just ignored in the other areas while the Byzantine Greeks settle in the Urban regions? Would they be just swamped by Greeks or Romanized peoples resettling? Would they be assimilated into the population of the Empire, eventually like how the Ancient Luwians, Lydians, Phrygians and Galatians were, when the Ancient Greek Empire expanded?
 
The Romans only lost the Balkans permanently in the late 12th century. When are you talking? In any case the Western Balkans would have been challenging but not impossible for the Romans to hold long term, while the Eastern Balkans were relatively straightforward. In all cases the locals would have simply been assimilated over time if the Empire was stable.
 

gurgu

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the only way i can see this is to avoid the battle of adrianople in 378 by stopping the corrupted burocracy to start starving to death the visigoth of frigiterno.
If valente manages to integrate them he's descendants might be able to do the same with the other slavs and even the bulgars, avoiding all the wars between 681-1200 with bulgarians and then in 1300 with the serbs thus making a more stable nation that might be even able to try re enter in italy from the north
 
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