It is a pleasure and an honor to have been asked to address a few informal remarks to you today on some of the problems whiclı the history of Byzantine Anatolia presents to the seholar. Inasmuch as the disciplines of Byzantinology and Turkology overlap chronologically, geographieally, and topically, the seholars of Turkish history and laııguage are in an excellent position to offer suggestions and methodologies towards solutions to many ofthe problems whieh the difficult history of Byzantine Anatolia presents.It is in this spirit that I would like to address my remarks to you