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There was not such a thing as the Byzantium Empire. There was the Byzantine Empire. This term has been coined by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part. This part lasted for nearly 1,000 years after the fall of the west. The Romans did not use this term.
The term Byzantine is derived from Byzantium, the Greek city which was redeveloped, turned into the imperial capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire and renamed Constantinople by the emperor Constantine the Great in 330. It is used to indicate the fact that not long after the fall of the west, this empire became centred on Greece and Greek in character after it lost most of its non-Greek territories. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire in 620, some 150 years after the fall of the west.
This empire is remembered for the most is Byzantine art, especially the icons and the illuminated manuscripts, Byzantine Church architecture and for having been the cradle of Orthodox Christianity. Constantinople, its capital is remembered for having been the largest city in Europe and one of its wealthiest ones though the Middle Ages until the fall of to the Ottoman Turks in 1453
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What is the Byzantium capital?
Byzantium was a city and it was the capitol of the eastern Roman empire. The eastern part of the empire was/is often called the Byzantine. So to make it (hopefully) clear, Byzantium was the capital of the Byzantine empire.
What are the release dates for Byzantium The Lost Empire - 1997?
Byzantium The Lost Empire - 1997 was released on: USA: 1997
The eastern part of the Roman empire became known as the?
Byzantium Emipre
What is a Hippodrome from the Byzantium Empire?
64
What became the capital city of divided Roman Empire?
Milan in the Western Empire and Byzantium in the Eastern Empire.
Who came to power in eastern europe after the fall of the roman empire?
The Byzantium Empire.
What word refers to as western roman empire?
Byzantium
Which placewas defeated by the Ottoman Empire in 1453?
Byzantium
What was the capital of the Eastern Empire?
Byzantium, renamed Constantinople.
Why do you refer to the empire centered in constantinople as the byantine empire?
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Who moved the capital of rome empire from rome to byzantium?
Constatine the second moved the new capital to the greek city of byzantium
When did the byzantium empire happen and why?
The ByzantINE (not Byzantium) Empire was brought to an end by invasions by the Ottoman Turks. First they took over the Byzantine territories in the Balkan Peninsula (southeastern Europe) and then in 1453 captured the capital of the empire, Constantinople.
