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Lets say he accepts Mehmets offer in return for safe passage for his citizens and troops, and in return the Ottomans would not attack the remaining byzantine territories for at least his and his successors generation in return for tribute. Do you think an empire reduced to a city state cold still survive.

Lets say from Morea he immediatly parlays with the italian city state sof Genoa, Venice, try to repair relations with the Kingodom of Naples. At the same time focus the cities resources on building a navy with few importance pllced to the army. THus when the ottomans do come knocking down Morea he or his successor could flee to Naxos and perhaps like in otl at Lepanto the allied fleets could defeat the Ottoman navy and secure the Area?

Is their any other possibility or is it asb for even a city state level empire to survive after 1451
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