Isaurians

At first the Eastern emperors recruited large numbers of Isaurians, a people who lived in the Taurus mountains of eastern Anatolia.

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Weren't the Isaurians ultimately brought down by their love of billboard advertising and suburban architecture?

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Of course, the Isaurians were about the only barbarians or maybe semi-barbariansliving in the region.

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Ostrogorsky says: "The accession of Anastasius I had meant the end of Isaurian influence, but the Emperor had to wage systematic warfare against the Isaurians before their resistance was broken 498."

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The Isaurians however were one of these small but tenacious groups of peoples like the Basques and Bretons, the Welsh and the Picts, and the Albanians whom the Romans couldn't completely suppress.

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I'll also have to get hold of this book, which has an article by Hugh Elton on the Isaurians: Elton is able to show that outsiders began to construct a definite Isaurian identity only after Zeno the Isaurian became emperor and thus created an interest in what it was that made Isaurians what they were.

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The Byzantine generals who in 493 fought against the Isaurians were Apsikal, a Goth, and Sigizan and Zolban, commanders of the Hun auxiliaries.

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I have always assumed that the Isaurians spoke one of the languages of the Reptilian family, perhaps Tyrannosaurian.

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In an effort to find out something about the Isaurians and their language a vain effort, and if anybody knows anything beyond "warlike" and "unknown" I'd appreciate hearing about it I ran across Vassil Karloukovski's Page, with its many Bulgarian-related links; what particularly attracted my attention was the section devoted to The Language of the Huns, Chapter IX of O.

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ANASTASIUS I (b. 431), emperor of the east, married Zeno's widow and removed the Isaurians from power, thus causing a serious revolt in Isauria (suppressed only in 497).

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