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Yes, especially if the Epirotes retake Constantinople; it's also worth noting that map from earlier is off. Dorylaeum, with its important fortifications leading into the highlands, remained in Byzantine/Nicaean hands, as attested by Muslim authors in 1215.

A new wave of immigration, sure, but I think it's hard to make the claim the Turks were strengthened when the Rum Sultanate was effectively collapsed and replaced by the Mongols as the main power in Anatolia. Nicaea, retaining a centralized authority would thus have the military edge still while...

I think so, Manuel left a strong inheritance for Nicaea and they managed to compound it. Their division of focus and thus resources, however, doomed them. Here, it's moreso if we go with the PoD I suggested; the Bosporus becomes the dividing line, and enables the Empire to focus on the East as...

Roughly 10-15% historically did, at least during the Komnenian Restoration; they were largely Hellenized and adopted Christianity as part of the Roman pushback in Anatolia. To be fair, though, by the 1200s the Turks were much more established politically, religiously and demographically in the...

@Circle of Willis has brought up the neglected PoD of Epirus being the one to retake Constantinople, most likely in the 1230s. With Latin power checked and Epirus likely to be busy managing the Bulgars, Serbs and remaining Latin entities in the Aegean, the Western flank will be secure...