we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry soldiers who guarded the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire and were recruited from the peasants of the border provinces. Today, ...

Military characteristics in the burials are ... how Anglo-Saxons might have joined Byzantine forces. In 575, the Byzantine Empire launched a major recruitment drive across Europe, desperately ...

Dionysos Stathakopoulos, currently at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, stands out among these. He writes: "My aim was to produce a clear account of the long history of the Byzantine Empire based ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire ... Historians call the republic’s later, third phase the Dominate—during which military emperors, ruling from wherever military ...

There were approximately 73 emperors and five ruling empresses of the Eastern Roman empire, which we call “Byzantine” (the count varies in different sources ... the Bachelorhood of Basil II,” which ...