9. VE 11. YÜZYILLARDA BİZANS'IN ARMENİA'DAKİ DİN POLİTİKASI.

The adoption of Christianity brought the historical relationship between Rome (Byzantium) and Armenians to a different and closely related point. By relying on its imperial power, Byzantium aimed to include the Armenians in its central state system and to assimilate them, and while doing this, it used religion as an important tool. However, permanent political movements from the East always interrupted this policy of Byzantium. The great war of the Sassanids, the ensuing arrival of Islam and the enormous dominance of this religion reduced both the political and religious power of Byzantium in the Eastern region. After a long Muslim-Arab domination, Byzantium wanted to regain the political and religious power it had lost since the middle of the 9th century and started a religious opening towards the East. The Armenians, who did not want Arab domination, gave great support to this opening of Byzantium and even wrote letters to Byzantium and invited them to the East. However, this situation again exposed the Armenians to a religious oppression and caused the Armenians to follow a policy of religious balance for a period of approximately one hundred and fifty years. This political period, which passed with ups and downs, made its impact felt deeply on the Armenians, such that this policy would bring the Armenians closer to the Turks, who came to the Anatolian lands and were the new owners of these lands. Byzantium, on the other hand, would withdraw from this scene irreversibly. In our study, we will examine the religious policy of Byzantium in Armenia after the Arab domination and try to present the data we found in the sources in our article by comparing them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]