It was around the year 1000 that the Seljuk Turks stormed onto the scene and began to establish a powerful empire, in the process taking on both the major Islamic Caliphates and the venerable Byzantine Empire
The previous answer was: The Crusades.
While it is true that Crusaders attacked both Byzantium and the Muslim states, they did not start arriving until 1098 when the First Crusade was launched, a Crusade which was allied with the Byzantines, albeit briefly.
Christians from the West and Muslims from the East attacked the empire. Asia Minor was lost to these invaders. This greatly weakened the empire, which had depended on Asia Minor for food and materials as well as soldiers. Before long the Byzantine Empire was reduced to a small area around Constantinople.
The Byzantine Empire was in the eastern part of the Roman Empire, and continued following the fall of Rome in the west. The city of Byzantium was rebuilt and made Constantine's capital around 330 AD. The Byzantine Empire ruled until the Ottoman Turks overtook Constantinople in 1453 AD.
During the decline of the Roman Empire, the empire was split into a western and eastern half. The capital of the western half was Rome, until it was invaded and captured by the visa-goths from modern day Germany. The eastern half was centered around Constantinople or modern day Istanbul After the collapse of the eastern empire, the western half was renamed the Byzantine Empire. So the Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire.
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Constantine I or (the Great) did not have any connection with the Byzantine Empire and the Byzantine Empire did not exist historically. Byzantine Empire is a term coined by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire. The Romans did not use this term, they called it Roman Empire or Romania (this referred to this empire and not the country which was later called Romania). According to dating conventions, the beginning of the Byzantine Empire was in 476. Constantine's reign as sole emperor of the whole Roman Empire (both the eastern and the western parts) was from 324 to 337, well before the period which historians call the Byzantine period. One indirect contribution he made was the creation of Constantinople, which later became the capital of the so-called Byzantine Empire, and the site he chose for it, which historians used the coin the term Byzantine. 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 Constantine in 330. It is used to indicate the fact that not long after the fall of the western part, 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.
Christians from the West and Muslims from the East attacked the empire. Asia Minor was lost to these invaders. This greatly weakened the empire, which had depended on Asia Minor for food and materials as well as soldiers. Before long the Byzantine Empire was reduced to a small area around Constantinople.
Invasions by the Islamic Ottoman Empire destroyed the Byzantine Empire.
Invasions by the Islamic Ottoman Empire destroyed the Byzantine Empire.
The Byzantine Empire was in the eastern part of the Roman Empire, and continued following the fall of Rome in the west. The city of Byzantium was rebuilt and made Constantine's capital around 330 AD. The Byzantine Empire ruled until the Ottoman Turks overtook Constantinople in 1453 AD.
Invasions by the Islamic Ottoman Empire destroyed the Byzantine Empire.
Seljuk Turks
During the decline of the Roman Empire, the empire was split into a western and eastern half. The capital of the western half was Rome, until it was invaded and captured by the visa-goths from modern day Germany. The eastern half was centered around Constantinople or modern day Istanbul After the collapse of the eastern empire, the western half was renamed the Byzantine Empire. So the Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire.
Yes, cats have been around since the dawn of time.
Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Byzantine/Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople around 330 AD.
When the Western Empire collapsed in 476, the Eastern Empire regarded itself as the sole, genuine Roman Empire. (The expression 'Byzantine Empire' was coined by historians around 1800).
invasions by the islamic ottoman empire destroyed the byzantine Asia
The Byzantine Empire is another name for the Eastern Roman Empire. Its capital and governmental institutions were all centered around the city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and it maintained a grip on the lands around it until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Thus, it can be considered that the Byzantines were generally in the Balkans, specifically the Balkan Peninsula, as the empire did not reach into Anatolia in its dying days.The contemporary people, however, didn't see it as such and often referred to the Byzantines as "Romans" and the empire as the "Roman Empire". In their time, the Byzantine Empire was considered a part of Western Europe, despite the Western Roman Empire having fallen long ago.Indeed, the term "Byzantine Empire" and the distinctions between the Eastern and Western Roman Empires were only derived after the fall of Constantinople.