BYZANTINE EMPIRE IMPACT ON ARMENIA

After 1045, most of Armenia passed to the Byzantine Empire. During the short-term rule of Byzantium, the imperial court pursued a policy of forcing Armenians to mass emigration, weakening their political and military power, as well as economic pressure and forcing them to the Chalcedonian religion.

All this had grave consequences not only for Armenia, but also for the Byzantine Empire: after the destruction of the powerful Armenian protective barrier, the advancement of the Turkic genocidal nomadic tribes – the Seljuk Turks, both in Armenia and in Asia Minor possessions of Byzantium, was simplified.

And after the devastating defeat at Manzikert by the Seljuk Turks in 1071, where Emperor Roman IV Diogenes was captured, domination began in Armenia and the process of mass migration of the Oguzes and Turkmens into the depths of Asia Minor.