The Bulgarian-Fatimid alliance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_I_of_Bulgaria#Suppression_of_Serbian_unrest_and_late_campaigns_against_Byzantium said:
Desperate to conquer Constantinople, Simeon planned a large campaign in 924 and sent envoys to the Fatimid caliph Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, who possessed a powerful navy which Simeon needed. The caliph agreed and sent his own representatives back with the Bulgarians to arrange the alliance. However, the envoys were captured by the Byzantines at Calabria. Romanos offered peace to the Arabs, supplementing this offer with generous gifts, and ruined their union with Bulgaria.

WI the envoys had not been captured?
 
Well, if the Fatimid ships defeat the Byzantine navy and isolate Constantinople . . . Simeon could very well take the city. He was a brilliant battlefield commander, and had looted the Golden Horn two years before. And if the Tsar does take Constantinople, there's no telling what this will do in the future.
 

Rockingham

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Unlikely Constantinople would be captured in this war, but the Bulgars and Fatimids could capture the bulk of their core territories-essentialy reducing them to the territories they had before Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, but 500 years earlier. It would be only a matter of time before the crippled Byzantium fell- but in all likelihood, the nation it fell to would probaly adopt its mantle. The Ottomans did in OTL.
 
It would be only a matter of time before the crippled Byzantium fell- but in all likelihood, the nation it fell to would probaly adopt its mantle. The Ottomans did in OTL.

And that would most likely be Bulgaria. What would happen to the Byzantine territories in Asia Minor and Italy? If these possessions survive the fall of Constantinople, would they accept Bulgarian authority or become successor states?
 
And that would most likely be Bulgaria. What would happen to the Byzantine territories in Asia Minor and Italy? If these possessions survive the fall of Constantinople, would they accept Bulgarian authority or become successor states?

They'd propably end up becoming successor states.

Unless I'm very mistaken, the Bulgarians were still regarded as barbarians at this point, and I just can't see all unconquered Byzantine territories surrendering just because the Bulgarians took Constantinople.
 
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