Reference on Numbers of Saxons

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Sat Dec 2 05:33:48 UTC 2000


In a message dated 12/1/00 10:01:05 PM Mountain Standard Time,
HSTAHLKE at gw.bsu.edu writes:

<< a Saudi student who is specialized in early Islamic scholarship mentioned
that Arabic documents dealing with the 8th c. Muslim invasions of the Iberian
Peninsula mention fighting against Goths.  >>

-- operating from memory, I seem to recall that a number of Gothic prisoners
of war were settled in western Anatolia around the time of Justinian, and
formed a unit in the Byzantine armed forces for some time.



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