Thread:Goombasaurusrex/@comment-24971888-20140526170555/@comment-24902435-20140528223847

I think we both have definitions of Anatolia. I mean, you probably view all of asian turkey as Anatolia. When I say Anatolia, this is what I mean: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/AnatolieLimits.jpg. In the period between Alexander the Great and the roman conquest, most of this territory was hellenised and this was greek speaking lands all the way until the Turks came, and the area was turkified. The raids on Iceland were just some areas. Not the whole island. And the raids didn't exactly mean you controlled the area. You had no administrative system there or anything. Turkish and Berber raiders who went in, looted for afew weeks, then went elsewhere. I don't know the population of Anatolia in 920. But that doesn't matter. Doesn't matter how many people were there, there was still a Greek majority. Many places had Greek populations at this time as a result of Ancient Greek colonisation and trading.