Византийский Временник

The present paper deals with the little-studied aspect of Late Roman and Early Byzantine military history: a military organization of Isauria, a small and distant province, situated at the south-east of Asia Minor. The fundamental internal problem of Isauria consisted of the mountain Isaurian tribes, which constantly attacked the flat lands of this region and the territories of neighbouring provinces, therefore the social and political situation in Isauria was characterized by permanent instability. The local Roman troops could not control and oppress these uncivilized mountain tribes.

The article focuses on the influence of the East, particularly Iran, on the political system of the Byzantine Empire during the period of its formation. The research is based, above all, on the data of prosopography. The study shows that in the 4th–th centuries Persians were in the civil service in the Byzantine Empire being on very high positions in the administration of the Empire and in the environment of the Emperor, particularly as praepositi sacri cubiculi. This led to a certain orientalization of the State system of the Byzantine Empire.

The information of the results of the exploration carried out by Joint Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the participation of the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (PNA) at the land plot of Russian Federation in Jericho in 2010. The Expedition cleared out the history of the land lot. Finds point to the Christian character of the complex. In the Byzantine epoch (late 5th - early 7th с AD) the plot was occupied by the monumental building.