Articles | Volume 38, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-889-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-889-2020
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28 Jul 2020
Regular paper |  | 28 Jul 2020

Historical aurora borealis catalog for Anatolia and Constantinople (hABcAC) during the Eastern Roman Empire period: implications for past solar activity

Nafiz Maden

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Anatolian aurora has been reviewed based on existing catalogs to establish a relationship between the aurora observations and past solar activity. There is no study dealing only with the historical aurora observations recorded in Anatolia and Constantinople. A considerable relationship is revealed between the aurora and past solar activity. High auroral activity around 774/775 and the Medieval grand maximum in the 1100s in Anatolia is quite consistent with the past solar variability.