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The Empire’s frontier defense troops in Anatolia …
Years: 1281 - 1281
The Empire’s frontier defense troops in Anatolia have been withdrawn to Europe or neglected, and bands of Turkish raiders, driven westward by the upheaval of the Mongol invasion, have begun to penetrate into imperial territory.
Like the Seljuqs in the eleventh century, the new arrivals find little organized opposition.
Some of the local Greeks have even collaborated with them out of their own antipathy to the Emperor in Constantinople.
By about 1280, Turks were plundering the fertile valleys of western Anatolia, cutting communications between the Greek cities, and …
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- Oghuz Turks
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Turkmen people
- Rûm, Sultanate of
- Mongol Empire
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Palaiologan dynasty
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Years: 1281 - 1281
Locations
People
Groups
- Oghuz Turks
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Turkmen people
- Rûm, Sultanate of
- Mongol Empire
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Palaiologan dynasty
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions