History

In this section I'll be sharing historical resources/references regarding the the history of the Rûm of the Levant (Ῥωμαῖοι).


- The Damascus Massacre of the Rûm:

History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Volume 2

A Brief History of The Patriarchate of Antioch


- The Arabization of the Antiochian Church:

Modern Christianity in the Holy Land


- Genetics:

Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences


- Historical Surveys:

The Survey of Western Palestine


- Connection to current day Greece: 

Levantine Rûm communities meeting with the Hellenic Parliament  


- Other references:

From the Holy Mountain

A History of Antioch in Syria: From Seleucus to the Arab Conquest

History of the Antiochian Church 

بحث انتقادي في اصل الروم الملكيين ولغتهم

The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine military expansion in the tenth century. Introd., transl., and annotations by Alice-Mary Talbot and Denis F. Sullivan (Washington, DC, 2005).

Complete Works 1, Greek ed. by K. W. Dindorf, Latin trans. by Claude Maltret in Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae Pars II Vol. 1, 1833. (Persian Wars I–II, Vandal Wars I–II)

The Secret History, English translation (Dewing, 1935) at LacusCurtius

The Buildings, Book IV Greek text with commentaries, index nominum, etc. at Sorin Olteanu's LTDM Project

Perceiving otherness, creating resemblance - the Byzantinization of nomads in the age of Justinian I: the Arabs By Mariusz Pandura


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