Side Sikke Buluntuları Işığında MS 622/3’de Pamphylia’ya “Olası” Bir Sasani Saldırısı
Abstract
The Byzantine-Persian war between 602-629 ad saw one of the biggest defeats in Byzantine history when the Persians occupied Egypt, Syria and parts of Asia Minor and their armies even reached Khalkedon. The history of the period is vogue, very much overshadowed by later Islamic conquests. The events of the Byzantine-Persian war is partly covered by Sebeos, who wrote a history of Armenia and was more concerned with events happening there and by another historian, Theophanes who wrote more than 200 years after these events. For this reason, the extant of Persian operations in Asia Minor is not known very well. All available historical and archaeological evidence have been interpreted by Clive Foss in 1975 in his article “The Persians in Asia Minor and the End of Antiquity” in which he also proposed that Pamphylia could be one of the areas affected by this war. The numismatic evidence from Side and elsewhere from Pamphylia seems to support this idea, although further archaeological or historical evidence is needed until a more definite conclusion could be reached.
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