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>>2280479

>>2280479
>dafuq

>>2280479
>How dafuq did a bunch of Turkic nomads conquer the whole empire of Byzantine?

Barbarians from the north kept conquering Iran for centuries, it was just that none managed to go further than that until 1071.

>>2280479
The Byzantines kept a tight leash on its military by controlling it with constant naval communications with the capital. Central and Eastern Anatolia however are far from the coast which allowed powerful families and tribes to eat up several themes and form private armies and independent principalities. A few of these went on to usurp the throne while others like the Armenians tried to band together and form their own kingdom after they had been settled in the region. The Byzantines tried to break these families and tribes up, and in the chaotic civil wars that followed bands of Turkic tribes came in and settled the dry central steppe. At first they were regular mercenaries in the in-fighting, and eventually attained offices and estates of their own under the Byzantines. But during the reign of Alexios Komnenos, when they and many others were rebelling, a Seljuk prince from the east fleeing an Iranian civil war began to unite the many Turkish beys in the region as a sultan, independent of the emperor's authority.

Abusing the safety of the mountain passes and distance from the Byzantine dominated coastline, the Seljuks of Rum consolidated their position, and over the next few centuries nibbled away at Byzantine land when possible. In the chaos of the 4th Crusade and the breakup of the empire into competing powers, coupled with the Mongol onslaught that drove even more Turkic tribes west, the Seljuks collapsed but several independent beyliks spread out to claim their own states throughout Anatolia. Of these, the Ottomans were the most successful, and would go on to conquer the Balkans and Anatolia.

>>2280555
checked

thanks anon