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Assuming the Russians had taken an earlier, successful shot at capturing Istanbul/Constantinople, could they have carved GDoF-like autonomous duchies/principalities out of the Balkans (Serbia, Greece, Wallachia, Moldavia e.t.c...) in order to establish a hinterland west of Tsargrad? And how would other European powers of the late 1700's-early 1800s react to such a move?
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