Constantine Porphyrogenitus De Administrando Imperio

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This is a reprint of the second revised edition of the text and translation of the De Administrando Imperio written and compiled by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century. It contains a wide variety of information on both foreign relations and internal administration and is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the Middle Byzantine period. Its confidential character and generally honest appraisal of the empireâe(tm)s political situation enhance its value for students of Byzantium and Europe during this period. The edition includes general and critical introductions, an index of proper names, and an extensive glossary, as well as grammatical notes and an index of sources and parallel passages.
 

Contents

Foreword to the First Edition
3
Περὶ τῶν ἀπὸ Χερσῶνος ἀποστελλομένων βασιλικῶν ἐν Πατζινακίᾳ
7
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34
List of Signs
41
Of the coming of the Russians in monoxyla from Russia to Constantinople
57
Περὶ τῆς Χαζαρίας πῶς δεῖ πολεμεῖσθαι καὶ παρὰ τίνων
63
Περὶ τῆς γενεαλογίας τοῦ Μουχούμετ
77
Περὶ τῶν Διοκλητιανῶν καὶ ἧς νῦν οἰκοῦσι χώρας
162
Περὶ τῆς γενεαλογίας τοῦ ἔθνους τῶν Τούρκων καὶ ὅθεν κατάγονται
170
Περὶ τῆς χώρας τῆς Μοραβίας
180
Περὶ τῆς χώρας τοῦ Ταρών
188
Περὶ τῆς χώρας τοῦ Απαχουνῆς καὶ τοῦ κάστρου τοῦ Μανζικίερτ καὶ τοῦ Περκρὶ
198
Περὶ τῶν Ἰβήρων
204
Περὶ τῆς γενεαλογίας τῶν Ἰβήρων καὶ τοῦ κάστρου Αρδανουτζίου
214
Ὁ ζητῶν ὅπως τῇ τῶν Πατρῶν ἐκκλησίᾳ οἱ Σκλάβοι δουλεύειν καὶ ὑποκεῖσθαι
228

Δεύτερος ἀρχηγὸς τῶν Αράβων Αβουβάχαρ ἔτη τρία
83
Τέταρτος Αράβων ἀρχηγός Οὐθμάν
84
Περὶ Ἰβηρίας καὶ Ἱσπανίας
98
Περὶ τοῦ θέματος Λαγουβαρδίας καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ πριγκιπάτων καὶ ἀρχοντιῶν
112
Διήγησις περὶ τοῦ θέματος Δελματίας
138
Περὶ τῶν Σέρβλων καὶ ἧς νῦν οἰκοῦσι χώρας
152
Περὶ τοῦ τίνι τρόπῳ γέγονεν τὸ βασιλικὸν δρομώνιον καὶ περὶ τῶν πρωτοκαρά
246
Story of the city of Cherson
259
Index of Proper Names
288
Glossary
314
Grammatical Notes
333
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