In this study, the Byzantine coins that are among the collections of Kütahya and Bolvadin Museums, located in the geography encompassing the Phrygia region in the Middle Ages, and the Byzantine coins which were acquired in the Amorium and Aizanoi excavations will be discussed. The aim of this paper is to determine the statistics of the Byzantine Coins in the Ancient Phrygia according to their periods and to evaluate the coins within the limits of the general economic history of their region. The Phrygian region in the Middle Ages is roughly the area surrounded by the provinces of Eskişehir, Kütahya, Afyon, Denizli and Uşak. Phrygia is considered to be one of the important points of the operation carried out against the Arabs in the 8th and 9th century. As from the second half of the 9th century, we see a complete Byzantine sovereignty in Anatolia and therefore also a period of peace and tranquility. And as of the second half of the 11th century, the region became an area of conflict between the Christian and Muslim military forces. The coin finds support this as well. Firstly, the statistics of the Byzantine coins found in the museums and the excavations in the region were calculated according to periods and the data were graphed out. The obtained data were compared to the other areas, and it was observed that the Byzantine Empire was a common feature for most of the regions in Anatolia and that different parts portrayed local differences.
The excavation of Amorium already from the late 1980s and until today has been pioneering a hands-on approach to the study of urban evolution by exploring a major early medieval and middle Byzantine provincial capital that after the 7th century and until the 11th played a paramount role in the forefront of Byzantine history. Especially the ‘prehistory’ of the excavation of Amorium is shown to have been an early episode in the famous Kazhdan-Ostrogorsky debate on the survival of Byzantine cities into the Middle Ages. At the same time, the paper presents how this tradition endures in the new phase of the Amorium Project by continuing on the basic principles set and expanding on new questions as the articulation of built civic space and the later medieval transition from Byzantine to Seljuk and Ottoman.
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