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Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium. Episode 145

The Eastern Conquests

Today we need to take a tour of Byzantium's new Eastern Frontier. The changes he has since 913

have been immense. Historian Mark Widow puts it like this.

The lands from which the Arabs and their allies had launched annual raids during three centuries

to ravage Anatolia were all under imperial rule. Tassus, Melatine, Theodosiaopolis and Tifriki

were each the seat of a Byzantine's trati-course. Hamdenid Aleppo survived as a protectorate.

The ruler of Damascus paid tribute and on all sides Muslim and Armenian rulers waited nervously

for the next advance. The contrast with 860 could scarcely be more dramatic or more complete.

The 860s were the time when the Romans began their war with the Politions and slowly realized

that caliphate armies were no longer going to return to Anatolia. Here we are a century later

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