Byzantine Empire (UA Alt History)

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This Alternate History looks at what could have happened if 1: The Norman invasion of Southern Italy failed, and 2: The Turks did NOT regain Central Anatolia.

In this AH, Byzantine inflicted crusing military defeats on the Turkish armies sent against it, and not only kept her borders but enlarged them, encompassing all the land up the eastern Black Sea to traditional Colchis (whose people he vassalised), and down to Jerusalem and then Egypt, both of which became vassals. Without the Crusades to unite them, the people of Northern and Central Europe fell on each other, and out of the ashes rose a new superpower, Gallica, created by a revolt from the populace of the Frankish kingdoms. The Normans were inducted into the kingdom, thus giving them no chance to attack southern Italy. With Gallica on the rise, the waning powers of the Holy Roman Empire were no match for it, and the king of the Holy Romans, Philippius, fled to the court of Constantinople to ask for protection. The emperor, Leo the Great, accepted and in return placed the Holy Roman kingdom under a puppet government. After allying with the Gauls, Byzantine turned its attention further east, to the Iberian peninsula. Leo launched a 6 year campaign to free it from Muslim rule, and returned victorious. Iberia was far enough away from the main focus of Byzantine affairs, the Arabian peninsula, that instead of annexing it, they helped the citizens create a new government, and left the country of Iberia to its own devices. The general-king of the new nation of Iberia was extremely compenent, and quickly conquered large swathes of African territory, mostly in Morocco. Leo's armies then took over Tunisia, and directly placed it under the authority of the Emperor. Meanwhile, the Fatamids had managed to take over Seleucia, and hold on to their status as rulers of the area, destroying the Seljuks in the process by convincing Byzantium that they were a greater threat than they were, and enlisting their aid. With the Seljuks soon gone, the Fatamid empire annexed Armenia as a vassal to counter Byzantiums annexation of Colchis. Tensions soon ran high over borders in that area, and the Fatamids and Byzantium were at war again. In the north, Novgorod and Kiev had rose in the absence of southern invaders to become two huge kingdoms that divided the modern Soviet frontier in half. In Denmark, the Saxons still ruled and had slightly expanded south. They were able to expand south and east because, following the Holy Roman Empire's disapearance in major politics, and shrinking of her borders, Poland and the area around it collapsed. From it arose the Teutonic Poland-Lithuanian Kingdom, which was at war almost constantly due to surrounding powers questioning its right to even exist. South of that was Hungary, who had been sent a request from the Byzantines to ally so they wouldn't threaten the Byzantine borders while Leo was fighting in the Iberian peninsula. They gladly accepted and began expanding their own borders now that their southern flank was secure. In England, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom had, with Gallic support, reduced Ireland down to a bloated Duchy of Munster. The Gauls supported the Anglo-Saxons because their crown prince had jurst gained rights of the Isle of Man through marriage, but it had recently been retaken by the Irish, and they were refusing to turn it over to the Gauls.