أساليب الدبلوماسية البيزنطية في إخضاع الشعوب

Abstract

For more than eleven centuries the Byzantium empire lived under hard political and military circumstances .But it overcame these difficulties with a strong army and active diplomacy. The diplomacy together with the army had great role . This research aims at studying the methods that Byzantium diplomacy followed in convincing and subjecting the other nations among them the marriage for political purposes and using the Christian religions.The research is divided into two sections. Section one deals with the origin of the Byzantium empire and its historical background. Section two explains the methods that the Byzantium diplomacy followed. The research is concluded with the findings that the researcher arrived at.