Asia Minor was the most populous part of the Byzantine Empire, its heartland. Without it, the empire simply didn’t have enough resources to compete in the long run.

AMMAN — Cities like Gadara (Umm Qais) and Gerasa (Jerash) were part of the pottery trade/production network in the Late Roman ...

The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, ... or “themes,” in Asia Minor, which was now the backbone of the empire.

A lecture about the Byzantium and the emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia will be presented by Dean Kalymniou on Thursday 19 July 2018 at Melbourne's Greek Centre. Dean Kalymniou talks to SBS Greek.

A chronology of key events: 1453 - Sultan Mehmed II captures Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and consolidating Ottoman Empire in Asia Minor and Balkans. 15th-16th Centuries - The ...

Thirteenth-century Byzantine Asia Minor, Byzantine social history, Greek and Latin philology, classical reception in the Medieval world, socio-cultural history of the Greco-Roman world, and perception ...

Indira Naidoo with Vrasidas Karalis, Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney, look back on the significance of this catastrophe in This Week in History.

Battle of Manzikert. A decisive battle in 1071 in which the Seljuk Turks, under Sultan Alp Arslan, routed the forces of Byzantine emperor Romanus IV, resulting in the fall of Asia Minor to the ...