Well technically the people of Anatolia were not Greek. They were Anatolian 'hillmen' Romanized (or Hellenized, not sure really) when the Eastern empire cleansed its armies of Germanic warriors in the 5th century AD.

Later Heraklios brought them into the fold completely when he made their theme the most important theme, and he Hellenized them. There was also a Byzantine dynasty of these people -- the Isaurian dynasty, begun by Leo III the Isaurian. Although I suspect this dynasty was much like its successors of the Macedonian dynasty: truly Greek.



~Wiz