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What if over time Serbia, Bulgarian, Ottoman, or even Byzantine or Italian maneuvers block the Ottomans from crossing over from Asia into Europe, can the Ottoman state still endure for multiple centuries? Could it still expand to take over all Anatolia? Could it reach beyond and take over the fertile crescent?

Or does the lack of a ghazi mission and loot doom the Ottoman state to fall apart?

Is it plausible for the Anatolian Turks of the 1300s to form a state encompassing all of Anatolia, yet that fails to expand into Europe?
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