The Byzantine Empire is usually said to be started in 330, when Constantine changed his capital. It when through huge recoveries by Justinian, and followed a long decline. Basil II and the Komnenus kept the empire standing longer, but even them could not prevent the eventual fall of Constantinople in 1453. So from 330 to 1453, if would be 1,123 years.
The Roman Empire lasted in Constantinople, known as Byzantium before its renaming, for over a millennium after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. The Eastern Roman Empire, commonly referred to as the Byzantine Empire, continued until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. This marks a duration of approximately 977 years in which Constantinople served as the capital of a Roman state.
The Byzantine Empire
The Ottomans destroyed the last part of the Byzantine Empire. (Constantinople)
During the last days of the Eastern Roman Empire, the modern city of Istanbul was called Constantinople. The name Constantinople was given to the city by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in 330 AD when he made it the new capital of the Roman Empire. It remained the capital of the Byzantine Empire until it was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 and renamed Istanbul.
Constantinople
The Byzantine Empire
The eastern Byzantine Empire lasted another thousand years until taken over by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
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Romulus Augustulus was the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The last Emperor of the eastern Roman Empire (Constantinople) was Constantine XI Palaiologos.
The Ottomans destroyed the last part of the Byzantine Empire. (Constantinople)
During the last days of the Eastern Roman Empire, the modern city of Istanbul was called Constantinople. The name Constantinople was given to the city by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in 330 AD when he made it the new capital of the Roman Empire. It remained the capital of the Byzantine Empire until it was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 and renamed Istanbul.
Constantinople
Constantinople
The conquest of the last territories of the Byzantine Empire in the Balkan Peninsula (in southeastern Europe) and Constantinople, the empire's capital, by the Ottoman Turks was what led to the fall of this empire.
Constantinople was inaugurated and an imperial capital in 330. Historians use 476 as the conventional date for the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire. This is the year when the last emperor of this part of the empire was deposed.
In 1453, Constantinople, the then capital of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Ottoman Empire.