21 Facts About Byzantine Anatolia

Byzantine Anatolia refers to the peninsula of Anatolia during the rule of the Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Anatolia came under Roman control during the time of the Late Roman Republic following the Mithridatic Wars.

Byzantine Anatolia's peace was dealt a mortal blow by these staggering losses.

Byzantine Anatolia initiated a series of civil and military reform to cope with the shrunken and threatened empire.

Byzantine Anatolia then returned to the east but was soundly defeated at the Battle of Sebastopolis in 692.

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Byzantine Anatolia lost the ground regained by Tiberios in the east, and imposed his views on the Pope.

Byzantine Anatolia effectively abolished the historical role of Consul, merging it with Emperor, thus strengthening the Emperors' constitutional position as absolute monarch.

Byzantine Anatolia's reign ended abruptly when an army rebellion deposed him and replaced him with Anastasius II.

Byzantine Anatolia in turn faced rebellion from two other themata, Anatolikon and Armeniakon in 717, and chose to resign, being succeeded by Leo III bringing an end to the cycle of violence and instability.

Byzantine Anatolia's next pressing task was to consolidate his power to avoid being himself deposed and to restore order in the face of the chaos that had ensued from the years of civil strife.

Byzantine Anatolia continued his father's reorganisation of the themata and embarked on aggressive and expensive foreign wars against both the Arabs and Bulgars.

Byzantine Anatolia died campaigning against the latter, being succeeded by his son, Leo IV.

Byzantine Anatolia survived a civil war in 803 and like most of the Byzantine emperors, he found himself at war on three fronts, suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Krasos in Phrygia in 805 and died on a campaign against the Bulgarians.

Byzantine Anatolia appears to have been motivated by the observation that the return of image veneration coincided with a period of untimely ends of emperors.

Byzantine Anatolia made this official through the Council of Constantinople in 815.

Byzantine Anatolia's downfall was the jailing of one of his generals, Michael the Amorian, on suspicion of conspiracy.

The first military success for the new emperor in Byzantine Anatolia was the defeat of the Paulicians in 873, who had been raiding western cities such as Nicaea and Ancyra.

The empire's grip on Byzantine Anatolia was stronger at Leo's death than it had been in a long time.

Byzantine Anatolia was successful, and in 1076 he captured Roussel and returned to the capital.

Byzantine Anatolia was thus ambushed at Myriokephalon by Kilij Arslan, and his army was routed in a humiliating defeat reminiscent of Manzikert a century earlier.

The most notable event in Byzantine Anatolia was the Third Crusade, which witnessed Frederick Barbarossa travel through Byzantine Anatolia, sacking Iconium along the way and defeating the Seljuks.