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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?
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