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activity administration Aegean Alexios Anatolia Andronikos Arab aristocracy armies Asia Minor authority Balkans Basil Basil II became bishops Bulgars Byzantine empire Byzantine world Byzantium central centres Christian Church cities civil clergy coastal commerce communities Constans II Constantine Constantine VI Constantinople Crusade cultural Danube defeated deposed dominated East Roman eastern economic ecumenical council effectively elements élite emperor empire's especially established evolved fiscal Greek hesychasm hyperpyron iconoclasm imperial important Italy Justinian Komnenos land landlords late Roman later eleventh Latin magnates major medieval mercenary middle military monasteries monastic monks Monophysites Nicaea Nikephoros ninth century officials Orthodox Ottoman Pammakaristos church particular patriarch peasant Pechenegs Peloponnese period Persian Phokas political population prefectures produced pronoia provinces regions reign role Roman Empire Roman world Rome ruler secular senatorial seventh century Sicily sixth social soldiers Syria tenth territory towns traditional troops twelfth century urban walls of Constantinople wealth western