Download PDF | Byzantine Armies AD 1118–1461, By Ian Heath (Author), Angus McBride (Illustrator), Osprey Publishing 1995.
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INTRODUCTION
The Byzantine Empire's disastrous defeat by the Seljuk Turks at Manzikert in 1071 effectively marked the end of what is often described as the 'middle' period of Byzantine history. Thereafter, surrounded on all sides by younger, more vigorous nations, and with its own financial and manpower resources progressively dwindling, the once all-pow- erful Empire slipped into a steady decline which though encountering occasional, sometimes lengthy, periods of remission was to gradually gather speed and, ultimately, to prove terminal. However, the Empire's demise was anything but peaceful, and, one way or another, for much of the last four centuries of its existence it was to find itself in a state of virtually constant war.
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