Battle for Survival ⚔️ How did Alexios Komnenos save the Byzantine Empire? DOCUMENTARY

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   🚩 Alexios I Komnenos was one of the great Byzantine Emperors. He turned the declining Byzantine Empire into a strong seat of power and successfully defended it against Norman invasions in the Balkans and the Seljuk Turk threat in Asia Minor.
   
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2. Komnenos (Greek: Κομνηνός; Latinized Comnenus; plural Komnenoi or Comneni (Κομνηνοί, [komniˈni])) was a Byzantine Greek noble family who ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1081 to 1185,[1] and later, as the Grand Komnenoi (Μεγαλοκομνηνοί, Megalokomnenoi) founded and ruled the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461). Through intermarriages with other noble families, notably the Doukai, Angeloi, and Palaiologoi, the Komnenos name appears among most of the major noble houses of the late Byzantine world.
   Komnenos

   Κομνηνός

   Komnenian dynasty

   CountryByzantine Empire
   Empire of TrebizondFounded10th century
   1057 (as imperial family)FounderManuel Erotikos Komnenos
   (first known; possibly founder)
   Isaac I Komnenos
   (first emperor)Final rulerAndronikos I Komnenos
   (Byzantine Empire)
   David Megas Komnenos
   (Empire of Trebizond)Final headJohn Komnenos MolyvdosTitles

   Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans

   Emperor of Trebizond

   Queen of Jerusalem*

   Princess of Antioch*

   Duchess of Athens*

   * by marriageDissolution1719Deposition1185 (Byzantine Empire)
   1461 (Empire of Trebizond)

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   OriginsEdit
   The 11th-century Byzantine historian Michael Psellos reported that the Komnenos family originated from the village of Komne in Thrace—usually identified with the "Fields of Komnene" (Κομνηνῆς λειμῶνας) mentioned in the 14th century by John Kantakouzenos—a view commonly accepted by modern scholarship.[2][3] The first known member of the family, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, acquired extensive estates at Kastamon in Paphlagonia, which became the stronghold of the family in the 11th century.[2][4] The family thereby quickly became associated with the powerful and prestigious military aristocracy (dynatoi) of Asia Minor, so that despite coming from Thrace it came to be considered "eastern".[5]
   The 17th-century French scholar du Cange suggested that the family descended from a Roman noble family that followed Constantine the Great to Constantinople, but although such mythical genealogies were common—and are indeed attested for the closely related Doukas clan—the complete absence of any such assertion in the Byzantine sources argues against Du Cange's view.[6] The Romanian historian George Murnu suggested in 1924 that the Komnenoi were of Aromanian descent, but this view too is now rejected.[6] Modern scholars consider the family to have been entirely of Greek origin.[6]
   Manuel Erotikos Komnenos was the father of Isaac I Komnenos (reigned 1057-1059) and grandfather, through Isaac's younger brother John Komnenos, of Alexios I Komnenos (reigned 1081-1118).

   Founding the dynastyEdit
   Isaac I Komnenos, a stratopedarch of the East under Michael VI, founded the Komnenos dynasty of Byzantine

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3. Alexios Komnenos's story is a story about how to deal with any kind of almost impossible odds. From a young officer he had to face a mercenary who had under his controll a large part of Anatolia. Even if he was only in his late teens, he put an end to this threat. When he became Basileus, the state was falling apart. The Normans advanced from the west, the Pechenegs and Cumans from the north, while the Seljuks from the east were at Nicaea, almost outside Constantinople. What were the chances for Alexios to survive through this. None, most would say. But Alexios succeeded, giving to the state, one last period of glory.

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4. Byzantine Empire not Roman. This is just propaganda by modern leftists and islamists to discredit Greek identity so they don't fight back against the turks invading Europe.

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5. Please more about the Komnenian Period ! ^^

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6. Greek Medieval history is awesome 🔥

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