Post by benkovski on Jun 21, 2008 13:53:03 GMT -5
There are many sources out there, if you are interested to read about them they are not difficult to find. But, from what it seems, you as many of the members on this forum are not interested in history but rather are interested in supporting a version of history that has been heavily influenced by political propaganda. It’s true that it’s easier this way since you don’t really need to do much reading. Hence, any discussion with would likely be a waste of time, but this time I’ll do you a favor. These are just some short excerpts of various books.
..decedents of these Heruls were perhaps among the inhabitants of Singidunum who were saved from resettlement by the Avars in the 590s (an example of the Avars trying to annex Roman population resources). Justinian permitted the Lombards to dwell in Noricum and Pannonia, provinces so remote that his acquiescence was a formality, but the establishment of the Bulgar Kotrigurs or the Lombard group led by Ildigisal in Thrace were definite acts of patronage, and anticipated a large settlement of Bulgars by Maurice. A final example of this policy was being contemplated in 602 when Maurcice, in order to create an army of 30,000 Armenians in the Balkans, apparently ordered the resettlement of the same number of families in Europe. 78 Such actions reveal a continuity of imperial concern, which can be traced thought late antiquity (e.g. Gothic settlements in the Balkans in the fourth century)... - The Cambridge Ancient History By Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Michael Whitby, p. 307
Population resettlements were early Roman tactics that were consistently occurring in the Roman provinces. After the 5th century there are fewer examples since the original ethnic character of all these regions had already been re-shaped.
During the eight decades of the fifth century in which a Western Roman empire still formally existed, the majority of its Gallic, Hispanic and African provinces were under Visgothic, Burgundian or Vandal 260 rule. No different - in terms of exercise of power by non-Romans - was the situation in Noricum, Rhaetia, Illyria or Thrace. This heightened the effects of the change in the forms of social and economic life, and in the ethnic make-up of almost all provinces of the Western Empire, which as we have seen, began in the third century.- The Origins of the European Legal Order By Maurizio Lupoi, Adrian Belton, p. 39
Curiously - for the phenomenon is not to be found in other historical periods - neither the Roman populations of the provinces nor the great landowners put up any serious resistance to the resettlement of 'barbarians' on their territories, 261 so long as those resettlements resulted from a foedus, or at least an understanding, with the imperial government. Nor were there episodes of racial or religious tension: Romans and non-Romans lived peaceably sided by side. 262 – The Origins of the European Legal Order By Maurizio Lupoi, Adrian Belton, p. 40
While this is not the place for the comprehensive review of Roman actions in Greece, a few of the hight points must be noted: not least warfare, resettled populations, colonization, reallocation of land, and symbolic displacement of cult and cult images. The last two centuries BC witnessed frequent military activity in the region, which reached its violent heights during the Civil Wars of the first century BC - Actium, of course, was fought just off the peninsula's west coast. Throughout these various conflicts, certain zones = Epirus, Boeotia - were harder hit than other cities were destroyed or maimed, not least Corinth in 146BC, while Athens itself suffered a particularly vicious sack by Sulla in 87/86BC. 16 Over this same time span, Romans and Italians began to acquire land in various parts of the mainland and islands, either as aristocratic absentee landlords or as actual residents; communities of foreign negotiators, the businessmen known as Rhomaioi, played an active part in the civic and religious life of places such as Messene in Messenia or Thespiaiin Boeotia. With growing de facto control of the territory came bolder transportations and impositions, including land grants or populations resettlements. Pompey, for example, reallocated "most of" more than 20,000 Cilician pirates at Dyme in the northwestern Peloponnese. 17 –Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories By Susan E. Alcock, p. 45
..decedents of these Heruls were perhaps among the inhabitants of Singidunum who were saved from resettlement by the Avars in the 590s (an example of the Avars trying to annex Roman population resources). Justinian permitted the Lombards to dwell in Noricum and Pannonia, provinces so remote that his acquiescence was a formality, but the establishment of the Bulgar Kotrigurs or the Lombard group led by Ildigisal in Thrace were definite acts of patronage, and anticipated a large settlement of Bulgars by Maurice. A final example of this policy was being contemplated in 602 when Maurcice, in order to create an army of 30,000 Armenians in the Balkans, apparently ordered the resettlement of the same number of families in Europe. 78 Such actions reveal a continuity of imperial concern, which can be traced thought late antiquity (e.g. Gothic settlements in the Balkans in the fourth century)... - The Cambridge Ancient History By Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Michael Whitby, p. 307
Population resettlements were early Roman tactics that were consistently occurring in the Roman provinces. After the 5th century there are fewer examples since the original ethnic character of all these regions had already been re-shaped.