Modern day with the Greek Byzantine Empire taking shape like this

Albert.Nik

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During the Medieval era and upto the end of it,the Byzantine Empire lost vast number of its territories from the OTL Jordan to the whole of itself in 1453. What in this ATL,the Greek Byzantine Empire strengthened and conquered the whole Anatolia back and conquered the Northern Levant by around 900 CE after strengthening itself from within and Hellenizing or 'Byzantinizing' the Christian Slavs in the North and by maintaining its church united with that of Rome's which was ruled by the HRE and eventually the Muslim civilians who were not yet a majority then are absorbed into the United Christian Christian Church following population after around a century and a half by Catholic missions and cultural and Social influence? Beyond this,France,Spain and British Isles remain the same as OTL exactly.
Parts of Northern Iraq is now inside the Byzantine Empire and the Kurds inside the empire have three divisions. One Catholic,a small one Nestorian and the remaining is Sufi Muslim. Sufi Islam IOTL influence the Catholic Empires heavily with Rumi,Ibn Arabi,etc making it look like the Episcopal church of today(more inclusive,tolerant). With this Golden age,Egypt is conquered fairly easily and now the Copts who were probably still a majority convert to this new Byzantine Catholic-Sufi Islam hybrid and the Arab settlers do so soon. North Africa is next and the Arab-Berbers embrace this attractive religion soon. Islam in this timeline exists as this Hybrid. Shia Islam remains more or less the same in Iran and the Peninsular Arabia would be Sunni as in OTL.
So how would the later developments happen with this developments? How would the colonial empires look like and how would the modern era look like? Turks,Tajiks and Afghans are a mix of all the three. Byzantine Catholic-Sufi Islam hybrid,Sunni Peninsular sect and the Iranian Shia sect. How would India look like in this timeline by the time of Islamic invasions? How would Russia look like as an empire which is devoted to the Byzantine Catholic-Sufi Church? As I said,to the North and the West of HRE,all the things happen same as in OTL except North Africa.
 
You mean to say that the regions to the West of HRE/Germany cannot be very similar to OTL as I have set the condition?

I mean to say you have made at the same too many changes (which beg even more changes) yet severely restrained them outside of the changed area (to an unlikely level) over a too huge timeframe (making said changes even more likely).
 
In your POD there was nothing to reconquer in Anatolia, it was already Roman.

By contrast the slavic population of the balkans was pagan.

Having France, Spain, Britain develop the same way is right out, for a start Iberia was Muslim at this point in time (with sicily to follow) and this was the height of the Caliphate's power, so any Christian resurgence in the east will impact Italy/Iberia/France quite significantly. Things won't develop the same way as if in a vacuum.

Breaking the power of the Caliphate will also have an impact further east, with the Nestorian Faith in Iraq and Zoroastrian in Iran being able to regain prominence, as at this time they were still a majority in many areas. At the very least we can't assume a similar Islamic expansion into India as OTL.

A different east also radically changes the trade patterns and exploration incentives for any states on the Atlantic. Impossible to tell what colonization pattern if any emerges.

The precursors to Russia were still pagan at this time. An empire may very well never rise, or if it does be very different as a nation.

The various nomadic migrations (Turkic, Mongol, etc) if and when they happen will encounter different states and thus have very different impacts. This could mean anything from Tengri Turkic tribes overruning Eastern Europe to a Nestorian Mongol Persian empire taking over India to a Bulgarian invasion of China.
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
I don't think Eastern Europe would fall so easily being held by the Byzantines,Hungarians and Slavs who are closely allied to Holy Roman Empire and their friends in Europe. The Tengrist Turkic tribes might be defeated severely by this united front establishing a Byzantine/Roman Catholic Hybrid or Shia Islamic or even Tengrist Volga Turkic kingdom somewhere East as some unlucky ones who came West are cought and converted and retained in the Empire while others retreat and form their own kingdom. The former eventually gets assimilated while the latter survives like the Tatars OTL.
Mongols and Persia are an interesting aspect. If this huge united front following the Hybrid religion of Byzantine/Roman Catholic-Sufi Islam Hybrid which would look somewhat like the today's inclusive Episcopal denomination flourished enough which they could,they could slowly influence the poorer Persia eventually converting it and bringing them under. The Reconquest of Spain happens quite quickly and the expelled Berber/Arab population joins this huge Empire after converting or they could convert and remain in Spain itself I don't know.
Arabian desert and parts of Sahel are the only Sunni Muslim areas for now but instead Islam as in it's Sufi form is incorporated by this Hybrid Empire and its religion. They might also begin to convert after this United front empires starts flexing it's muscles towards them.
Turkic people who migrate Westward/Southward into the Persia/Afghanistan side of the Empire now a rich and a integral part of this Empire/United front's sphere, settle down,convert and get assimilated quite quickly. Then the Volga Turkic kingdom converts too and at this time,the East Slavs expand who also Convert as in OTL.
India might be invaded by any of these from Geographical regions similar to OTL's invasions.
The position of Jews is rather of a curiosity in this TL. Do they get influenced by this inclusive Church and Convert? Or do they use the tolerance to remain Jews? The Nazi empire rise is totally butterflied as Hitler will be born in some rich landlord or a prince's house who is more interested in the well being of the people under his domain rather than going after obscure Nazi ideas. So Israel exists as a province only which is a majority of this empire's religion and Jews build religious settlements in the Levant and do pilgrimages from elsewhere where they live happily in their homes and cities in Europe speaking Yiddish. No Israel as OTL.
Hebrew is revived but mostly stays in the Niche. Aramaic,Greek,Latin,German,Slavic,Yiddish are the main languages used by the Jews.
India's situation would be interesting.
Pax Romana is the age now!
Colonialism happens probably a lot more gently.
 
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