Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

In the article dedicated to the Mardaites, the Christian highlanders who maintained their autonomy between Byzantium and the ...

The Byzantine Greeks are a nation that is very often misunderstood for a number of historical and political reasons.

For the Eastern Roman Empire -- known to us as "Byzantine" -- the Danube was a critical military and political frontier. In the disastrous seventh century this frontier was overwhelmed by invading ...

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 ...

In 575, the Byzantines were in desperate need of men as they fought against the Sasanian Empire of Persia ... Franks and Burgundians. A Byzantine military manual referred to Britons ...