Byzantium And The Turks In The Thirteenth Century

Author : Dimitri Korobeinikov
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191017940

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Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century by Dimitri Korobeinikov Pdf

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.

Author : Dimitri Korobeĭnikov,UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 0191779318

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Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century by Dimitri Korobeĭnikov,UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online) Pdf

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.

Author : Rustam Shukurov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307759

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The Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461 by Rustam Shukurov Pdf

In The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires.

Author : Jonathan Harris,Catherine Holmes,Eugenia Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199641888

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Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150 by Jonathan Harris,Catherine Holmes,Eugenia Russell Pdf

A detailed introduction provides a broad geopolitical context to the contributions and discusses at length the broad themes which unite the articles and which transcend traditional interpretations of the eastern Mediterranean in the later medieval period.

Author : Speros Vryonis
Publisher : Malibu : Undena Publications
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X001276573

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Studies on Byzantium, Seljuks, and Ottomans by Speros Vryonis Pdf

Author : Claude Cahen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317876267

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The Formation of Turkey by Claude Cahen Pdf

From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The rise of Constantinople and the later Ottoman Empire are well known: less well understood are developments in the three centuries in-between. What led to the decline of the Byzantine Empire and what happened in the intervening years before the rise of the Ottomans? Translated from the original French, this classic work examines the history of the Turkey that eventually gave rise to an imperial power whose influence spanned East and West.

Author : Donald M. Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521439914

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The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 by Donald M. Nicol Pdf

The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261 and this book narrates the history of this restored empire from 1261 to its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. First published in 1972, the book has been completely revised, amended, and in part rewritten, with its source references and bibliography updated to take account of scholarly research on this last period of Byzantine history carried out over the past twenty years.

Author : István Vásáry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000939248

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Turks, Tatars and Russians in the 13th–16th Centuries by István Vásáry Pdf

The setting for the studies collected here is the West-Eurasian steppe region, extending from present-day Kazakhstan through southern Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia to the Carpathian Basin. The first articles deal with pre-Mongol, Turkic peoples of the region and their relations with the Byzantine Empire to the south, but the core of the volume is the history of the Golden Horde and its successor states, such as the Kazan and Crimean Khanates, whose Turco-Mongol overlords are often referred to as Tatars. These played a decisive role in the history of Western Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the 13th-16th centuries and had a fundamental influence on the rise of the Russian state. Particular articles look at Mongol institutions and terminology, others at the interaction of the medieval Tatar and Russian worlds.

Author : Speros Vryonis
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033731428

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Byzantium: Its Internal History and Relations with the Muslim World: Collected Studies by Speros Vryonis Pdf

Author : Alexander Daniel Beihammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351983853

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Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130 by Alexander Daniel Beihammer Pdf

The arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia forms an indispensable part of modern Turkish discourse on national identity, but Western scholars, by contrast, have rarely included the Anatolian Turks in their discussions about the formation of European nations or the transformation of the Near East. The Turkish penetration of Byzantine Asia Minor is primarily conceived of as a conflict between empires, sedentary and nomadic groups, or religious and ethnic entities. This book proposes a new narrative, which begins with the waning influence of Constantinople and Cairo over large parts of Anatolia and the Byzantine-Muslim borderlands, as well as the failure of the nascent Seljuk sultanate to supplant them as a leading supra-regional force. In both Byzantine Anatolia and regions of the Muslim heartlands, local elites and regional powers came to the fore as holders of political authority and rivals in incessant power struggles. Turkish warrior groups quickly assumed a leading role in this process, not because of their raids and conquests, but because of their intrusion into pre-existing social networks. They exploited administrative tools and local resources and thus gained the acceptance of local rulers and their subjects. Nuclei of lordships came into being, which could evolve into larger territorial units. There was no Byzantine decline nor Turkish triumph but, rather, the driving force of change was the successful interaction between these two spheres.

Author : Edwin Pears
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781537809953

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The Ottoman Turks to the Fall of Constantinople by Edwin Pears Pdf

IT was in 1299 that Osman (Othmain, Uthman) declared himself Emir of the Turks, that is, of the tribe over which he ruled. The Seljuq Turks have been treated in a previous chapter; but there were many other Turkish tribes present in the middle and at the end of the thirteenth century in Asia Minor and Syria, and, in order to understand the conditions under which the Ottoman Turks advanced and became a nation, a short notice of the condition of Anatolia at that time is necessary. The country appeared indeed to be everywhere overrun with Turks. A constant stream of Turkish immigrants had commenced to flow from the south-west of Central Asia during the eleventh century, and continued during the twelfth and indeed long after the capture of Constantinople. Some of these went westward to the north of the Black Sea, while those with whom we are concerned entered Asia Minor through the lands between the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea.

Author : Nevra Necipoğlu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139478625

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Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins by Nevra Necipoğlu Pdf

This is a detailed analysis of Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. The book covers three major regions of the Byzantine Empire - Thessalonike, Constantinople, and the Morea - where the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants, the urban populace, peasants, and members of ecclesiastical and monastic circles are examined against the background of social and economic conditions. Through its particular focus on the political and religious dispositions of individuals, families and social groups, the book offers an original view of late Byzantine politics and society that is not found in conventional narratives. Drawing on a wide range of Byzantine, western and Ottoman sources, it authoritatively illustrates how late Byzantium was drawn into an Ottoman system in spite of the westward-looking orientation of the majority of its ruling elite.

Author : Paul Wittek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136513183

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The Rise of the Ottoman Empire by Paul Wittek Pdf

Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected writings on the period from the founding of the state to the Fall of Constantinople and the reign of Mehmed II. Most of these pieces reproduces the texts of lectures or conference papers delivered by Wittek between 1936 and 1938 when he was teaching at Université Libré in Brussels, Belgium. The books or journals in which they were originally published are for the most part inaccessible except in specialist libraries, in a period when Wittek's activities as an Ottoman historian, in particular his formulations regarding the origins and subsequent history of the Ottoman state (the "Ghazi thesis"), are coming under increasing study within the Anglo-Saxon world of scholarship. An introduction by Colin Heywood sets Wittek's work in its historical and historiographical context for the benefit of those students who were not privileged to experience it firsthand. This reissue and recontextualizing of Wittek’s pioneering work on early Ottoman history makes a valuable contribution to the field and to the historiography of Asian and Middle Eastern history generally.

Author : Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004415843

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Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes by Buket Kitapçı Bayrı Pdf

Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change on Byzantine territories between thirteenth and fifteenth centuries through intersecting stories on Turkish Muslim warriors, dervishes, and Byzantine martyrs.

Author : Alexander V. Maiorov,Roman Hautala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000417456

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The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe by Alexander V. Maiorov,Roman Hautala Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe offers a comprehensive overview of the Mongols’ military, political, socio-economic and cultural relations with Central and Eastern European nations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, and one which contributed to the establishment of political, commercial and cultural contacts between all Eurasian regions. The Golden Horde, founded in Eastern Europe by Chinggis Khan’s grandson, Batu, in the thirteenth century, was the dominant power in the region. For two hundred years, all of the countries and peoples of Central and Eastern Europe had to reckon with a powerful centralized state with enormous military potential. Some chose to submit to the Mongols whilst others defended their independence, but none could avoid the influence of this powerful empire. In this book, twenty-five chapters examine this crucial period in Central-Eastern European history, including trade, confrontation, and cultural and religious exchange between the Mongols and their neighbours. This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of the Mongols, as well those interested in the political, social and economic history of medieval Central-Eastern Europe.