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Ο Σαββίδης πάντως είναι ξεκάθαρος ότι πρόκειται για αρχαιοπρεπείς αναχρονισμούς
Στην περίπτωση των Σελτζούκων δεν πρόκειται απλώς για αρχαϊσμό. Οι Βυζαντινοί τους έβλεπαν καταρχάς ως κατακτητές της Περσίας και συνεχιστές μιας περσικής πολιτειακής παράδοσης. Η ιστορική σύνδεση με τους αρχαίους Πέρσες και την ελληνοπερσική σύγκρουση ήταν συνέπεια αυτού του γεγονότος.
Σκυλίτζης:
«καὶ καθελόντες Πέρσας καὶ Σαρακηνοὺς αὐτοὶ κύριοι τῆς Περσίδος ἐγένοντο, τὸν Ταγγρολίπηκα σουλτάνον ὀνομάσαντες, τουτέστι παντοκράτορα καὶ βασιλέα βασιλέων· ὃς πάσας τὰς ἀρχὰς τοὺς ἐγχωρίους ἀφελόμενος εἰς Τούρκους μετήνεγκε καὶ τὴν Περσίδα πᾶσαν πρὸς αὐτοὺς διένειμεν, ἐς τὸ παντελὲς κατασπάσας καὶ ταπεινώσας τοὺς ἐγχωρίους»
Jovanovic (σ. 257):
By dismissing the previous administrators
of the Persian state and investing his own men with offices of importance,
Tughrul-beg, according to Skylitzes’s interpretation,
did not destroy the
Persian state, but rather became a new ruler of this polity. In so doing, he
also promoted his own men to positions that were already there as part
of the Persian governing apparatus.
By adopting persianate political and
social practices, the Turks of Tughrul-beg themselves became persians in
Byzantine history writing. It was precisely because the Seljuk dynasty was
treated as a new persian authority by the Romans that Skylitzes felt the
need to emphasize that Tughrul-beg replaced the existing governors with
the new ones.
Άννα Κομνηνή (σ. 260-261):
For example, while narrating the early days of what
is to become known as the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in Asia Minor, the main
persianized power in the region during the second-half of the 12th century,
Anna writes: τὸν τὴν Νίκαιαν φρουροῦντα, ὃν ἡ συνήθεια μὲν τῶν Περσῶν
σατράπην ἀποκαλεῖ,
οἱ δὲ νῦν τὰ Περσῶν φρονοῦντες Τοῦρκοι ἀμηρὰν
ὀνομάζουσι, τὸν Ἀπελχασήμ. Here, Komnene informs readers that she
and other historians were aware of the process of persianization taking place
among some Turks. She therefore makes a clear reference to a specific group
of Turks who were in the process of acculturating into a universe of Persian
customs.
From a Byzantine perspective, these Turks were becoming Persian
nationals.