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"If the enemy is not attacking from the East it has flanked." Finnish proverb
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Here is a good publication from this:
Speros Vryonis: Nomadization and Islamization in Asia Minor
And this happened based on the historical facts in Central Anatolia: The invaders exterminated the local population and the lands turned into the nomads' pastures. These nomads expanded gradually towards the periphery, the local population locked itself into his cities and castles, the lands outside the walls turned into the nomad's land also. And the Turkishs conquered these cities finally. Because of this the post-Byzantine population's considerable part survived the Turkish conquest on the coasts, but not in the central plain.
This was the basic situation after the Seljuk conquest, the original lands of the Turkic newcomers:
And the results of their slow expansion:
But the Ottoman conquest ended this slow expansion, since the realm did lawful order on the area and regulated the nomads so this situation did not change basically in the next four hundred years. The only real change was the Kurdishs' expansion and the Armenians were the losers of this, since the warzone between the Turks and Byzantines was shifted into Anatolia because of the Manzikert battle, so the nomad Turkic expansion did not affect the Armenian borderland, but Ottoman-Persian wars and the nomad Kurdish expansion did in the same time with the solution of the Turkish nomads' problem. The Kurds were the new problem for the empire, but since the Kurds served in the Empire because of this they were the Turkishs' Armenians. While once time, the Armenians expansion was similar phenomenon in the Byzantine-Arab borderland:
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