HIST-102 Lecture 63: recovery of Byzantine
14 Oct 2020
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The recovery of byzantine might much of it at the expense of splintering islam also played a key role. By the middle of the eleventh century, byzantine conquests and reconquests had doubled the empire"s size from its eighth-century nadir. Armies organized by the theme system had pushed far into the eastern and southern regions previously lost to the "umayyads, and they restored byzantine rule over all of asia minor, Armenia, syria, and the northern half of mesopotamia. But byzantine armies had also moved far northward and westward until by 1025 they had conquered the entire balkan peninsula, taking all of what is today greece, albania, macedonia, and a large portion of today"s bulgaria. With this newfound strength, the byzantines stood once again in a position to participate fully in mediterranean trade. Greek military advances had taken place almost entirely on land.
