Alexander Daniel Beihammer received his PhD from the University of Vienna and is a member of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. From 2001 to 2015 he taught at the University of Cyprus and is currently Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on Byzantine official documents, diplomacy, and cross-cultural communication between Byzantium and the Muslim world, as well as on Byzantine-Latin contacts and mutual perception in the crusader states and the Eastern Mediterranean.

• List of Maps AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Conquests, Modern Nations, and Lost FatherlandsSources, Images, PerceptionsPart I First EncounterS in Byzantium’s Eastern Marches, ca. 1040-10711. The Eastern Provinces, Turkish Migrations, and the Seljuk Imperial Project2. Byzantine-Seljuk Diplomacy and the First Turkish Footholds3. Emperor Romanos IV and Sultan Alp Arslān, 1068-1071Part II Decay of Imperial Authority and Regionalization of Power, 1071-10964. Sulaymān b. Qutlumush and the First Turkish Lordships in Syria5. Revolts and Byzantine-Turkish Coalitions in Asia Minor, 1071-1081 6. Seljuk Rule between Centralization and Disintegration, 1086-10987. Turkish and Byzantine-Armenian Lordships in Asia MinorPart III The Crusades and the Crystallization of Muslim Anatolia, 1096-ca.11308. Seljuk Reactions to the First Crusade9. New Contact and Conflict ZonesConclusionsBibliographyIndex

Alexander Daniel Beihammer received his PhD from the University of Vienna and is a member of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. From 2001 to 2015 he taught at the University of Cyprus and is currently Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on Byzantine official documents, diplomacy, and cross-cultural communication between Byzantium and the Muslim world, as well as on Byzantine-Latin contacts and mutual perception in the crusader states and the Eastern Mediterranean.

• List of Maps AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Conquests, Modern Nations, and Lost FatherlandsSources, Images, PerceptionsPart I First EncounterS in Byzantium’s Eastern Marches, ca. 1040-10711. The Eastern Provinces, Turkish Migrations, and the Seljuk Imperial Project2. Byzantine-Seljuk Diplomacy and the First Turkish Footholds3. Emperor Romanos IV and Sultan Alp Arslān, 1068-1071Part II Decay of Imperial Authority and Regionalization of Power, 1071-10964. Sulaymān b. Qutlumush and the First Turkish Lordships in Syria5. Revolts and Byzantine-Turkish Coalitions in Asia Minor, 1071-1081 6. Seljuk Rule between Centralization and Disintegration, 1086-10987. Turkish and Byzantine-Armenian Lordships in Asia MinorPart III The Crusades and the Crystallization of Muslim Anatolia, 1096-ca.11308. Seljuk Reactions to the First Crusade9. New Contact and Conflict ZonesConclusionsBibliographyIndex

Alexander Daniel Beihammer received his PhD from the University of Vienna and is a member of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. From 2001 to 2015 he taught at the University of Cyprus and is currently Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on Byzantine official documents, diplomacy, and cross-cultural communication between Byzantium and the Muslim world, as well as on Byzantine-Latin contacts and mutual perception in the crusader states and the Eastern Mediterranean.

• List of Maps AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Conquests, Modern Nations, and Lost FatherlandsSources, Images, PerceptionsPart I First EncounterS in Byzantium’s Eastern Marches, ca. 1040-10711. The Eastern Provinces, Turkish Migrations, and the Seljuk Imperial Project2. Byzantine-Seljuk Diplomacy and the First Turkish Footholds3. Emperor Romanos IV and Sultan Alp Arslān, 1068-1071Part II Decay of Imperial Authority and Regionalization of Power, 1071-10964. Sulaymān b. Qutlumush and the First Turkish Lordships in Syria5. Revolts and Byzantine-Turkish Coalitions in Asia Minor, 1071-1081 6. Seljuk Rule between Centralization and Disintegration, 1086-10987. Turkish and Byzantine-Armenian Lordships in Asia MinorPart III The Crusades and the Crystallization of Muslim Anatolia, 1096-ca.11308. Seljuk Reactions to the First Crusade9. New Contact and Conflict ZonesConclusionsBibliographyIndex