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Last Updated: 02/03/2026

Code - Course Title Compulsory/Elective Laboratory + Practice ECTS
TAR203 - Byzantine History III. SEMESTER 3 +0 5.0
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Required Courses
Course Instructor(s) DOÇ. DR. NİLGÜN ELAM
Mode of Delivery The mode of delivery of this course is face to face.
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Prerequisites There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended It is suggested to students to take ARK 244 Byzantine Institutions, MIT 101 Mythology ans Iconography.
Recommended Resources * Clark, Victoria (2001), Why angels fall : a journey through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo, London: Picador. * Norwich, John Julius (1999), A short history of Byzantium, New York: Vintage Books. 
Work Placement Not Applicable.
Aims of the Course

Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 History of the Byzantinology
Week - 2 From the Late Roman Empire to the Early Byzantine Empire; Christianity in the Imperium Romanum
Week - 3 Diocletian and Constantine Reforms; Foundation of the Constantinopolis
Week - 4 Migration of Germanic Tribes and era of Christological struggles
Week - 5 Justinian the Great's era; Heraclios Dynasty and transformation of the Later Roman Empire to the Medıeval Byzantine State; Islam and Byzantine civilisation
Week - 6 Isaurian Dynasty and the Iconoclastic period
Week - 7 Macedonian Dynasty Era and the Byzantine classism
Week - 8 Decline of Byzantine State and the Ducas Dynasty; Penetration of Turks into Anatolia
Week - 9 Mid-terms week
Week - 10 Rising of the militarist aristocracy and the Era of Comnenian dynasty
Week - 11 The Crusades and the Byzantine State; Fall of Constantinopolis to the Latins
Week - 12 Latin Empire at Constantinopolis; Empire of Nicaea
Week - 13 Palaeologos Dynasty; fall of the Byzantine Empire; Inner and external reasons of the fall; civil wars, social and religious struggles, military and financial problems
Week - 14 Final exam

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Assessment Method and Passing Requirements
Quamtity Percentage (%)
1.Midterm Exam 1 40
Final Exam 1 60
Toplam (%) 100

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