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Settlement politics of the Byzantine Empire between IV. and VII. centuries

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2018
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Advisor: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Sezgin Güçlüay

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The Roman Empire, came to the border neighbor with barbarian societies along with its expanding borders. Initially, connived at the transition of the barbarian tribes to the borders of the empire due to the military and especially the need for the agricultural economy. However, the oppression of the germen communities that escaped from the front of the Huns along with the migration of the tribes, caused the controversy in the Empire. However, due to the imperial bureaucracy's dominance of military and agricultural human resources, the massive germen masses were recognized as feudality. The Germen communities, which were allowed to act on led by their own leaders, rose rapidly in all major bureaucracies of the empire, especially in the military. This rise has been reached until the Roman government seized by them. Roman Empire's vast borders and enormous power in the following periods also raised the appetite of other tribes, like Avars, Slavs, and Bulgarians that constantly threatened and oppressed the Empire. The situation in the eastern borders has not been so different, Sasani and Arab repression and threats have put into the empire in a difficult position. The invasion and threats that the Empire was exposed to could have been different. Because, the Slavs who acted with Avars have occupied themselves in order to settle rather than to ransack and to pillage. In the general strategy of the Empire, because of the greatest danger of the threat was perceived from the East and leaving the Balkans to be somewhat more flexible, the Slavic communities who took advantage of this situation also settled in the empire lands. The dismissal of the Sasanids, the greatest threat to the East, has not relieved Byzantium, and the subsequent Arab Islamic raids have brought it into new challenges that will last very long. Not only political events have shaped Byzantine settlement and politics. Social and economic events have also been quite effective on settlement. Likewise, the Nika rebellion, one of the greatest internal revolts in history, can be seen as an example of the depletion of the population of the empire. The religious and sectarian differences and struggle also influenced the Byzantine population movement. In addition, the great plague epidemic in 541 and the great earthquakes in Constantinople are examples of the destruction of natural disasters in the empire's population power and economic structure. The Byzantine Empire maintained the necessary policies to keep the population strength at substantial level in normal and extraordinary situations. Undoubtedly, in these policies he sustained, he could sometimes fail and face the negative consequences. This situation has become inevitable somewhere. Because it is a politics with a great deal of risk and difficulty to employ and place different communities within their own society and state.

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Celal Biçer

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Celal Biçer (Master Thesis). Settlement politics of the Byzantine Empire between IV. and VII. centuries, 2018, Fırat University.

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