The Dominence of the Lecapeneus dynasty over the Roman empire

The Lecapaneous dynasty
Basically in this POD the eldest son of ROmanus Christopher does not die in 931. This his younger brothers don’t launch a coup against Romanus in 944 which lead to support of Constantine Porphroygenitos who soon took power. Here that does not happen.
Hope you all enjoy it.


931
Constantinople
The Emperor Romanus and his family stood by the bedside of their eldest son Christopher. Christopher had fallen ill and the family prayed for his return to health. By the end of the week the family was relieved to hear that Chris had gotten better and would not die. This greatly eased Romanus who was afraid of losing his eldest son. Soon the situation in Constantinople looked bright. Increasingly that Constantine was losing his power to Christopher. Meanwhile ROmanus was overjoyed at the god news in Anatolia. In 924 the navy of Leo of Tripoli was anighlaed and the romans retook control of the Aegean. But most of all under the leadership of his most able general John Curacas Melitle was recently captured. He viewed the situation and realized if he played his cards right then he could potentially recover much of the empires territory and secure legitimacy for his dynasty.
Meanwhile in Anatolia John Curacas the general of the Roman armies in Anatolia after seizing melitle decided to launch a preemptive strike on the forces of the abbasid calph with the main purpose to destroy the rising Hamanid dynasty. Specifically the man Saif ad Dalau*.
On May 19th, 931 John lead the thema antolikon, Opskilon, Armeniokon, and the Chaldean Themes to launch a full scale assault on the lands of the Hamanids. Their first target was Mosul. Here the Roman army secured a decisive victory over the forces of the Saif where the Roman armies of Curaccas crushed Saif. and after a bitter siege Mosul and the surrounding hamanid lands fell to the Romans. However Saif was not broken. Realizing he had lost Mosul Saif retreated to his stronghold aleppo and hired many mercenaries along the way to repair his army. This major army soon fought with the forces of John Curaccas 12000 strong outside Aleppo. It was to prove decisive. Saif was a remarkable Saracen general. But John was likewise equally competent. That day the fierce battle was fought. Both sides ended in stalemate with neither side being able to target a weak point in the enemy. But then disaster struck Saif. One of his commanders Jabal Ala din was shot by a stray arrow and died. When What followed was pure carnage. Saif tried to rally his troops but with his flank exposed the roman cavalry trounced his own infantry. With the infantry dispersed his archers and cavalry archers were deprived of their defense. This lead to them breaking rank and being decimated by the Byzantine troops. After much fighting Saif’s forces were extinguished. But Saif fought like a lion with his elite unit. Saif laughed as he saw his army crumble. His last words were death to the infidel. With this cry he charged like a lion into the enemy ranks killing many but soon he was speared. By days end the battle was over. Close to 7000 roman casualties were had but Saif’s forces were virtually destroyed suffering 10000 casualties. With Saifs defeat John turned the army toward Aleppo and after a harsh siege the city of Aleppo fell to the Romans. With Aleppo taken the Hamanids as a power were broken.
John however was not satisfied. He eyed at the Levantine provinces.



On January 24th 933 with the imperial orders John and his forces turned on the abbasid forces occupying the levant as they launched a campaign. The campaign was to retake Jerusalem the holy city that was lost to the Romans in the late 7th century.
 
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Interesting POD. I've thought of several regarding Byzantine history, but this wasn't one of them.

A couple of suggestions:

First, proofread your posts. They're a lot harder to read when they're full of spelling and grammatical errors, and you want to make it easy for the reader.

Second, put spaces between paragraphs. If I get a headache reading a solid wall of text on a computer screen, I'll be less inclined to come back.

Otherwise it seems to be pretty good. Although Mosul is too deep into Muslim territory for it to be taken by the Byzantines at this time. Samosata would be much more plausible, given that it was a major bone of contention between the Byzantines and Arabs in OTL 930s. Also since Sayf al-Dawlah was governor was Amida district in OTL, it would be more fitting, I think, for him to be killed in a battle in that province. Perhaps replace Aleppo with Amida, Nisibis, or Edessa. But I'm interested in seeing what comes next.
 
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