Alexander Beihammer: Patterns of Turkish Migration and Expansion in Byzantine Asia Minor in the 11th and 12th Centuries. In: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Yannis Stouraitis (Hrsg.): Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E. BRILL, 2020, ISBN 978-90-04-38249-7, S.173, doi:10.1163/9789004425613_007 (brill.com [abgerufen am 17. April 2024]).
deremilitari.org
DRM_peter: The Battle of Manzikert: Military Disaster or Political Failure? – De Re Militari. Abgerufen am 17. April 2024 (amerikanisches Englisch): „The Byzantine civil war had continued for ten years and completely exhausted Byzantine resources in Anatolia. While the Byzantines had been busy fighting each other the Turks had advanced into a power vacuum, initially as raiders, later as mercenaries and finally as settlers. They had successfully exploited Byzantine factionalism by supporting various usurpers as their interests dictated and had profited immensely.“
Paul Markham: The Battle of Manzikert: Military Disaster or Political Failure? – De Re Militari. Abgerufen am 17. April 2024 (amerikanisches Englisch): „Alexius displayed an ambivalent attitude towards the collapse of the Byzantine position in Anatolia. It is true that Robert Guiscard posed the most immediate threat to his throne, but even after the Norman’s were defeated in 1084AD, Alexius made no serious attempt to recover Anatolia.“
Alexander Beihammer: Patterns of Turkish Migration and Expansion in Byzantine Asia Minor in the 11th and 12th Centuries. In: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Yannis Stouraitis (Hrsg.): Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E. BRILL, 2020, ISBN 978-90-04-38249-7, S.173, doi:10.1163/9789004425613_007 (brill.com [abgerufen am 17. April 2024]).
iranicaonline.org
Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation: Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica. Abgerufen am 16. April 2024 (amerikanisches Englisch): „The reign of ʿAlāʾ-al-Din Kayqobād I saw the growth of the taste for Persianate culture that had been gradually developing in Anatolia since the late 12th century.“
Saljuqs III: Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica. Abgerufen am 17. April 2024 (amerikanisches Englisch): „Alexius Comnenus (r. 1081-1118), who made a treaty with Solaymān setting the border between Byzantium and the Turks at the river Drakon (now Kırkgeçit) which was intended to keep Bithynia and the Bosphoros free of Turks (Anna Comnena, III.11, VI.9).“
