Imagining the Communities of Others:The Case of the Seljuk Turks

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Published: Oct 31, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/byzsym.14403
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ethnonyms identity Seljuk Turks Byzantine historiography Romanitas
Aleksandar JOVANOVIC
Simon Fraser University
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Aleksandar JOVANOVIC, Simon Fraser University
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at the Simon Fraser University.
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