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The Eagle and the Knight or How could I learn to save Byzantium

Part I - Splintering Troubles and the Rebuild
In the beginning, Ottoman Interregnum began to splinter apart as it starts to rip apart with Musa Çelebi's forces began to win in several battles including the Kosmidion but the battles starts to turn bitter as the forces still fighting in 1405 to 1408. Mûsa was planning well with his supporters and encouraged to train and gather their forces to fight but he went to mosque to attend worship and he was thinking that he might killed by Mehmed so he was feared that his forces might be destroyed so he needs to use funds to raise his army to fight back against rival Ottoman brothers.

The armies of the rival Ottoman brothers met on the plain of Chamurli (today Samokov, Bulgaria). Hassan, the Agha of the Janissaries of Mehmed, stepped out before the ranks and tried to get the troops to change sides. Mûsa rushed towards Hassan and killed him, but was himself wounded by an officer who had accompanied Hassan. Mûsa's Ottomans fought well, but the battle was in complete stalemate. With Mûsa's victory, Mehmed had but no choice and declare himself as sultan of Amasya and the Ottoman Empire is now disintegrated in 1411 into two rival sons but however the luck was ended with a disaster and now, Ottoman Empire is now officially ceased to exist.

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With Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaiologos began to use funds to raise an army in effort to retake lost lands. John VIII began to plan to form uneasy alliances. To prepare for full crusade against the Ottoman remnants, he sent his envoys to Venice and Genoa to provide support in retaking their lands.

"To my brothers and friends, we know that our rival is no more and we could have more chance to retake our lost lands and we will arise again. this is my chance to survive my empire!". Emperor John VIII Palaiologos speaks to the crowd where he began to use church retake his lost lands from the remnant Ottomans. To secure crusade against the Ottoman remnants, he visited Pope Eugene IV and consented to the union of the Greek and Roman churches. The Union was ratified at the Council of Florence in 1439, which John attended with 700 followers including Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople and George Gemistos Plethon, a Neoplatonist philosopher influential among the academics of Italy.

He raised his funds to build fortress and recruit knights in 1440 and he was planning to start a big blow war against the Ottoman remnants.

With the outbreak of Crusade of Varna in 1443, Emperor John VIII alarmed at increasing rate where he heard of possible chance so he seeks to recruit more forces and gather information to participate crusades against the Ottoman remnants.

In the spring of 1444, an army of not more than 10,000 Byzantine troops crossed the border and attacked Ottoman remnant forces, marching to Sofia. Indeed, an entire military campaign had just began and Byzantine forces fully engaged Ottoman remnant forces on August 16, 1444. his son was also present in the war, the first city retaken is Thessalonica.

With turning point began with Battle of Skopje with estimated numbers of Byzantine forces are 16,000 while the remnant Ottoman forces are at least 10,000, historians said that the battle was the bloodiest part with intense fighting and casualties. huge reinforcements of forces are from Constantinople but aided by Venetian and Genoese forces. the Byzantine forces managed to reinforce and assist crusaders at Varna officially.

With Ottoman Empire started to collapse apart as the Aq Qoyunlu began to invade the Anatolia and remnants has been fallen in 1432. a huge sweeping army of 20,000 Aq Qoyunlu's troops marched into plains of Anatolian mountains which signaled retreat and downfall.

However, huge Byzantine forces began to pour in 1447 during his last year of reign but the crusaders won the battle which led to final battle in 1448 in Edirne. estimated addition 16,000 forces began to reinforce the battle but Ottomans forced to withdraw from the Balkans and unable to deal with huge numbers of Byzantine forces and lead to withdrawal of troops.

Modern historians noted the Byzantine participation in the Crusade of Varna as "resurgence of Eastern Roman Empire" and sees the Byzantine's reconquest as comeback and definite success as rebirth of Byzantine hegemony. In a joint war, the Byzantines had managed to reverse the territorial loss and managed to retake their lost territories while the Aq Qoyunlu war with the Ottoman's led to consolidation of Aq Qoyunlu's power and dominance which led to rivalry with the Mamluks and curbed Ottoman influence.

It is unknown whether the Byzantines prepare for final conquest against the Ottomans in 1508 but the final job led to complete rebirth of Byzantine hegemony.

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Now, I noticed that Byzantines will reemerge again and recover from deep troubles and managed to reverse the lost territories.


A timeline where Sultan Mehmed killed in the battle against Musa's forces but ends with stalemate leaving Ottoman Empire weak and invaded by Aq Qoyunly which made Byzantine victorious and reemerge again.

Another thing is Tsardom of Russia could have fallen apart and leads to formation of Polish-Lithuanian-Muscovite Commonwealth.

So, if anyone notices my TL, I will continue it harder and faster.
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