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Ingvar the Far-Travelled: between the Byzantium and Caucasus. A Maritime Approach to Discussion
2019
The Journey to the East of the Viking Ingvar the Far-Traveled is one of the events that fit into the history of medieval relations of the Scandinavians with the world of Byzantium. It was a fateful expedition taking place between 1036 and 1041, and to this day it is a source of many controversies and speculations of researchers. The findings of the present paper suggest that the journey did not necessarily proceed to the lands of the Saracens or Byzantium but may have been part of the game played by Constantinople with its ally Tmutarkan, which opposed Jaroslav the Wise, these events unfolding in the north-eastern waters of the Black Sea.
De Administrando Imperio Konstantyna Porfirogenety o strukturze naczelnego dowództwa floty bizantyńskiej w pierwszej połowie X wieku
2016
The work of Emperor Constantinos Porphyrogetos "De Administrando Imperio" is an extremely important source for the history of Central and East Europe. We find that, also provides information about top executives, commanding the naval forces of the Byzantine Empire, at the turn of the ninth and tenth centuries. Based on data contained in the DAI, we are able to trace the facts concerning the action of people associated with the Byzantine Navy at the beginning of the reign of the Macedonian dynasty, as well as in which kind of ships and boats was equipped the squadron of Navy subordinate to the emperors.