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The Battle of Manzikert: Byzantium's Armenian Frontier
In 1071, the Seljuk Empire shattered the Byzantine army at Manzikert, a battle fought on Armenian soil that changed the course of Anatolia forever. This episode unravels the lead-up to that fateful day: the influx of Turkic tribes, the crumbling defenses of the Byzantine east, and the Armenian lords who held the frontier. We follow Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes as he marches east to secure the border, and the betrayal of Andronikos Doukas that sealed his defeat. With Manzikert, the doors to Anatolia swung open, leading to centuries of Turkic settlement and the slow erasure of Armenian presence…
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