The purpose of this work is to explore the data provided by such sources.
📌 3 Key Takeaways
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Objective & Hypothesis:Not much is known about the condition of the Bosporus and Byzantion - the most significant urban centre in the South-Eastern Thrace after the annexation of the last client Thracian kingdom in Bizya and the conversion of Thrace into a Roman province in 45/46 AD.
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Key Findings & Data:The literary evidence about the period until the end of the 1st century are too scarce and laconic and there was only one reason for that, i.e. the lack of any important political events, both in terms of international events, such as wars, military campaigns by land or by sea, ethnical migrations, and local ones, such as civil turmoils, battles with neighbours, etc.
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Conclusion & Impact:The purpose of this work is to explore the data provided by such sources.
🔬Design:Araştırma Makalesi
📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:Roman historiography · political changes · province
Abstract
Not much is known about the condition of the Bosporus and Byzantion - the most significant urban centre in the South-Eastern Thrace after the annexation of the last client Thracian kingdom in Bizya and the conversion of Thrace into a Roman province in 45/46 AD. The literary evidence about the period until the end of the 1st century are too scarce and laconic and there was only one reason for that, i.e. the lack of any important political events, both in terms of international events, such as wars, military campaigns by land or by sea, ethnical migrations, and local ones, such as civil turmoils, battles with neighbours, etc. When facing this problem, we may refer for help to sources of other nature- archaeological, epigraphical, numismatic, as far as there are any available. The purpose of this work is to explore the data provided by such sources.
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