What if Byzantium Overcame the Turks?

Go to https://piavpn.com/historysinfluence to get 83% off from our sponsor Private Internet Access with 4 months free!   / historysinfluence   https://linktr.ee/historysinfluence #history #byzantine_empire #alternatehistory #seljukempire #turkey #greece #crusades A video exploring an alternate history scenario in which the Byzantine Empire is able to overcome the threat of the Seljuk Turks (which may mean the Ottomans may never exist), in a world in which the Crusades may not happen. This is part two of a Byzantium alternate history series. Chapters 📚 0:00 - Introduction 4:04 - Alexios: An Alternate Rule 9:44 - Komnenian Prosperity 13:15 - Roadmap for Conquest 18:14 - No Crusades? 26:10 - Seljuk Fall, Byzantine Rise Bibliography 📖 Birkenmeier, John W. The Development of the Komnenian Army. BRILL, 2002. Christie, Niall, and Maya Yazigi. Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages. BRILL, 2006. Holmes, Catherine. Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976-1025). Oxford University Press, USA, 2005. “How Did the Christian Middle East Become Predominantly Muslim? |,” n.d. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/h.... Kaldellis, Anthony. Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade. Oxford University Press, 2017. Kaldellis, Anthony. The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome. Harvard University Press, 2015. Kaldellis, Anthony. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium. Oxford University Press, 2024. Kars, M. Ece, A. Nazlı Başak, O. Emre Onat, Kaya Bilguvar, Jungmin Choi, Yuval Itan, Caner Çağlar, et al. “The Genetic Structure of the Turkish Population Reveals High Levels of Variation and Admixture.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 36 (August 23, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026076118. Laiou, Angeliki E., and Cécile Morrisson. The Byzantine Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2007. Loud, G. A. The Latin Church in Norman Italy. Cambridge University Press, 2007. Magdalino, Paul. The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Peacock, A. C. S. The Great Seljuk Empire. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Theotokis, Georgios. The Art of War in Byzantium. Arc Humanities Press, 2024. Theotokis, Georgios. The Battle of Manzikert (1071): A Turning Point in Byzantine and Turkish History. ARC Humanities Press, 2023. Image Credits 📷 Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com. "Seal of Isaac Komnenos, brother of Alexios I" Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi.... Licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... Adjustment: Cropped reverse of coin. Not copyrighted but: Most of those drawings used come from the Madrid Skylitzes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_... Music Credits 🎵 "Ascending the Vale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Angevin B" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Lost Frontier" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Anguish" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Eastminster" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Skye Cuillin" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Hero Down" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Majestic Hills" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Eastern Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Ibn Al-Noor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...