WI:Vlach dominated Byzantine Empire

Not sure, but you can have the Vlachs form a similar entity to that of the Holy Roman Empire. Dunno how someone like Vlad Tepes can rule the Byzantines though.
 

katchen

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It might help if the Vlachs (or some Vlachs) developed a capital or an entrepot city on reclaimed land in the Danube Delta. Something like a Vlach Venice or Ravenna that could be an entrepot between the Silk Road and the Danube River Route crossing the Dnieper to Byzantium route.
 
Impossible. Greek almost always made up atleast a plurality in the population of the empire.

Ya. For a sizeble chunk of the ROMAN empire, the main language was Greek, not Latin. No way can you change it later.

Well, OK, its possible if the 'byzantine empire' consists of a tiny rump in the Balkans/greece, having lost Byzantium The City, and probably all of Bulgaria....
 
Impossible. Greek almost always made up atleast a plurality in the population of the empire.

I don't like to cry "impossible!" or "ASB!" generally, but I think I would agree. Constantinople was founded as an island of Balkan Latin culture in a Greek sea, after all, but by the middle of the fifth century at the latest it was already rapidly becoming a very Greek place, and by the beginning of the seventh I'd imagine it would be quite difficult to find anyone who spoke Latin as a first language in the capital.

Since you can't really have a "Byzantine Empire" without the city that they themselves often called "Byzantion", I would agree with eliphas that the scenario is basically impossible.
 
Could it be Bulgarian Empire type of situation? Once Byzantium is weak, the some Vlach people take over and reform it. I don't know a lot about the Vlach history.
 
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