Author(s): Kenan BEÅALTI
In our country, it grows underwater and maritime research in recentyears.Many finds and shipwrecks have been determined relating to the Byzantine seamanship in Yenikap? excavation and underwater research done in our country' scoast. A large part of these findings relating to commercial shipping. There are the remains of two ships belonging to the Byzantine navy only. As in each fields, the importance of terminology is very large in maritime research.We learn Byzantine navy’s terms from some historical sources.The first of these is the section titled Naumachika in the workTaktikon of Emperor Leon VI, which gives information about the navy. Another of these are some sections of the source De Caerimoniis written by Emperor Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos VII. In this work there are Turkish explanations of some naval term that are mentioned in both historical sources.
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