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Scenario:
  • The Komnenid empire survives briefly longer, with Manuel winning Myriokephalon and Alexios II succeeding at a later age. There is no Fourth Crusade, so the Byzantines are worth conquering.
  • The Mongol conquests proceed as historical, except the Byzantines are in one piece.
  • Even though the Byzantines could probably pay off or fight off the Mongols, they are defeated soundly and Constantinople is taken.
  • A "Golden Horde" or "Ilkhanate" like entity is created in Greece and Anatolia, called the Purple Horde.
How does this new khaganate develop? What are its key cities, like the Golden Horde's Sarai Batu and Astrakhan? What religion does its khagan convert to? How are Byzantine and Mongol traditions reconciled into a new imperial administration?
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