IOTL, when Emperor Basil II died in 1025 he was preparing for a campaign to recover Sicily. If he had survived long enough to actually make it there, how could things have turned out - annexation like Bulgaria or vassalization like Aleppo?
Probablylike what happened in Crete. The Muslims in the cities get kicked out, except for the Merchants and replaced by Romans.Sicily would have been the first Byzantine conquest of a large Muslim population, right? I wonder how that would have played out.
That wasn't a fault. That was a perk of the system.I think the byz us much stronger....however the structural fault is always succession