NovoScriptorium celebrates Christmas and shares the best traditional Eastern Roman Christmas carols with its readers! Love, Health, Enlightment, Happiness, Blessings for you all! Christ is born! Continue reading “Eastern Roman Traditional Christmas Carols”
Road System in Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Asia Minor on the Eve of the Turkish Conquest
The large land mass of Byzantine Anatolia was closely knit by the system of roads which the empire had largely inherited from the days of the Roman Empire.
Turkic influx in all strata of the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) population (11th-15th centuries A.D.)
In the seventh to the ninth centuries, with some exceptions, there were three major groups of newcomers from the Muslim Orient to Byzantium: Muslim prisoners of war and hostages, merchants and diplomats, and “political” refugees. Continue reading “Turkic influx in all strata of the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) population (11th-15th centuries A.D.)”
Turkic anthroponymical nomenclature through Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) sources
The Turks in the anthroponymical database might have had Arabic Muslim, Persian, Turkic, and Mongol names. While the Arabic and Persian names are relatively easily recognisable, the identification of Turkic and Mongol ones presents difficulties caused by the obscurities of the ethnolinguistic history of the Turks of the region. Continue reading “Turkic anthroponymical nomenclature through Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) sources”
Oriental names in the Late Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) World
The West Byzantine lands
The 350 Oriental names for the west Byzantine lands can be divided by geographical criteria, thereby indicating the major areas of “Oriental” presence. Continue reading “Oriental names in the Late Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) World”
Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) patterns of naming
The anthroponymical database contains three types of names: baptismal name, byname or sobriquet, and surname which could have been a simple or composite patronymic derived from either father’s or mother’s family name or from both. Continue reading “Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) patterns of naming”
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