Byzantium, also known as Constantinople, currently Istanbul.
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The Byzantine Empire fell when the capital city of Constantinople, now Istanbul, was captured by the Turks in 1453. The Turks took Constantinople as their new capital, and the territories of the Byzantine Empire then became part of the Ottoman Empire.
Byzantium, renamed Constantinople.
The eastern part of the Roman empire became what is known as the Byzantine empire.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire.
Constantinople became the new capital in the year a.d. 312
The Byzantine Empire fell when the capital city of Constantinople, now Istanbul, was captured by the Turks in 1453. The Turks took Constantinople as their new capital, and the territories of the Byzantine Empire then became part of the Ottoman Empire.
Constantinople
Byzantium, renamed Constantinople.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire.
The eastern part of the Roman empire became what is known as the Byzantine empire.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire.
It was known, while it existed, simply as the Roman Empire. In order to distinguish it from the Western Roman Empire, historians have taken to calling it the Byzantine Empire. This name refers to Byzantium, which was the original name of the city of Constantinople, the Eastern Roman Empire's capitol.
The Eastern Orthodox Church was the church for the Byzantine Empire.
Constantinople became the new capital in the year a.d. 312
The Byzantine Empire.
The Eastern Roman Empire. It became the Byzantine empire after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.