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Why didn't the Abbassids kick the judeochristian greek despotate of Byzantium out of Anatolia and Arabized the region before the Turks could Turkify it?
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Because the Abbasids were not stable in the 9th century. They had a bad civil war early 800's and another one around the 860's. The Byzantine state was on the rise and Macedonian dynasty is getting ready to start fucking them up