Is it possible to have much of central or eastern Europe that went Roman Catholic embrace Orthodoxy instead after 1300?
Cyril converted the Czech but they were reconverted by the Germans IIRC. I think the Croats, Czechs, and maybe Lithuanians are your best bet. Poland is too close to Germany.
Cyril converted the Czech but they were reconverted by the Germans IIRC. I think the Croats, Czechs, and maybe Lithuanians are your best bet. Poland is too close to Germany.
And the Czechs and Croats aren't?Furthermore Lithuanians are Baltic and not Slavic.
That being said, this doesn't mean that they can't become Orthodox, however IMHO the earlier the POD the more likely this becomes.
The Czechs and the Croats are closer to Byzantium.
The Czechs and the Croats are closer to Byzantium.
Both the Czechs (in Bohemia & Moravia) and Croats bordered the kingdom of the Eastern Franks, which later becomes the Holy Roman Empire (they latter bordered ''Austria'', Bavarian East Marches).
And both were closer to the Byzantines than the Poles.
Have the poles and czechs germannized and Slavs of Istria and Dalmatia italianized/absorbed, the remaining slavs will be Orthodox.