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Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
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At the beginning of the thirteenth century Byzantium was still one
of the most influential states in the eastern Mediterranean,
possessing two-thirds of the Balkans and almost half of Asia Minor.
After the capture of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth
Crusade, the most prominent and successful of the Greek rump states
was the Empire of Nicaea, which managed to re-capture the city in
1261 and restore Byzantium. The Nicaean Empire, like Byzantium of
the Komnenoi and Angeloi of the twelfth century, went on to gain
dominant influence over the Seljukid Sultanate of Rum in the 1250s.
However, the decline of the Seljuk power, the continuing migration
of Turks from the east, and what effectively amounted to a lack of
Mongol interest in western Anatolia, allowed the creation of
powerful Turkish nomadic confederations in the frontier regions
facing Byzantium. By 1304, the nomadic Turks had broken Byzantium's
eastern defences; the Empire lost its Asian territories forever,
and Constantinople became the most eastern outpost of Byzantium. At
the beginning of the fourteenth century the Empire was a tiny,
second-ranking Balkan state, whose lands were often disputed
between the Bulgarians, the Serbs, and the Franks. Using Greek,
Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman sources, Byzantium and the Turks in
the Thirteenth Century presents a new interpretation of the Nicaean
Empire and highlights the evidence for its wealth and power. It
explains the importance of the relations between the Byzantines and
the Seljuks and the Mongols, revealing how the Byzantines adapted
to the new and complex situation that emerged in the second half of
the thirteenth century. Finally, it turns to the Empire's Anatolian
frontiers and the emergence of the Turkish confederations, the
biggest challenge that the Byzantines faced in the thirteenth
century.
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