It's capital was Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople after the emperor Constantine.
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.
The main impact which the Byzantine Empire has had on the modern societies of many eastern European countries is the spread of Orthodox Christianity by Byzantine missionaries.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire named after its fall is mostly the Ottoman Empire. Edit: The area of the former empire is still known in Turkish and other oriental languages as Rum (pronounced room). Thus the famous writer Jalaludin Rumi is named after the area in modern Turkey where he lived for most of his life (born in what is now Afghanistan).
In 500 CE, the Byzantine Empire primarily encompassed regions that are part of modern-day Turkey, particularly the area around Istanbul, which was then known as Byzantium and later Constantinople. Additionally, it extended into parts of the Balkans, Greece, and the eastern Mediterranean, including areas of modern-day Italy, Syria, and Egypt. The heart of the empire was in the eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople.
You may not find total agreement on this answer, but I would have it begin in the year 476 with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Byzantines did not call themselves Byzantines any more than the ancient Greeks called themselves Greeks. The Byzantine Empire is modern nomenclature to avoid confusion with the Eastern Roman Empire after the Roman Empire was divided, but before the Western Roman Empire fell.
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.
The main impact which the Byzantine Empire has had on the modern societies of many eastern European countries is the spread of Orthodox Christianity by Byzantine missionaries.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire named after its fall is mostly the Ottoman Empire. Edit: The area of the former empire is still known in Turkish and other oriental languages as Rum (pronounced room). Thus the famous writer Jalaludin Rumi is named after the area in modern Turkey where he lived for most of his life (born in what is now Afghanistan).
In 500 CE, the Byzantine Empire primarily encompassed regions that are part of modern-day Turkey, particularly the area around Istanbul, which was then known as Byzantium and later Constantinople. Additionally, it extended into parts of the Balkans, Greece, and the eastern Mediterranean, including areas of modern-day Italy, Syria, and Egypt. The heart of the empire was in the eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople.
The eastern roman empire, which in modern times, is referred to as the byzantine empire and in their day as the roman empire. also the religion wasn't explicitly Greek orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy would be a better umbrella term.
You may not find total agreement on this answer, but I would have it begin in the year 476 with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Byzantines did not call themselves Byzantines any more than the ancient Greeks called themselves Greeks. The Byzantine Empire is modern nomenclature to avoid confusion with the Eastern Roman Empire after the Roman Empire was divided, but before the Western Roman Empire fell.
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The Byzantine Empire is just the modern name of the continuation of the Roman Empire from its eastern capital Constantinople, built on the site of the city of Byzantium. The Church in that part of the world was a continuation of the apostolic Church from earliest times. It is known as the Greek Orthodox Church.
The Byzantine Empire is just the modern name of the continuation of the Roman Empire from its eastern capital Constantinople, built on the site of the city of Byzantium. The Church in that part of the world was a continuation of the apostolic Church from earliest times. It is known as the Greek Orthodox Church.
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Byzantium was not a country in the modern sense but rather the eastern portion of the Roman Empire, which continued to exist after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. It was officially known as the Byzantine Empire, with its capital at Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). The Byzantine Empire was characterized by its distinct culture, blending Greek and Roman influences, and it lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The Byzantine Empire did not spread. This is a term which had been coined by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman empire after the fall of the western part of this empire. At the beginning this so-called Byzantine Empire had already reached it greater extent. In included Egypt, in north Africa, modern Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, western Jordan, Syria and Turkey in Asia and much of the Balkan Peninsula in south-eastern Europe. It then gradually lost its territories to the Arabs, the Slavs and the Turks.