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SANAT TARIHI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF ART HISTORY, vol.31, no.1, pp.297-319, 2022 (ESCI, TRDizin)
The constant Arab campaigns on its eastern border between the second half of the seventh and the second half of the tenth century largely affected the border politics and military landscape of the Byzantine Empire. The invasions brought about the creation of military units under the authority of a strategos or a kleisouratrhes. Likewise, the border politics were based upon the maintenance of a soldier who would do his military service, and upon providing the supplies that would make the local commune to maintain its life and defend itself at the same time. In the inner side of the border, this defensive strategy was to hinder the routes easily passible by the enemy with control posts and strongholds or to strengthen them, while the strategy for the outer side of the border was to create a no man's land and a buffer zone.