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4 days ago · History and geography of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms. In the 14th century the Ottoman Turks began to encroach on Byzantine territory, and the empire fell to them in 1453.
- From 867 to The Ottoman Conquest
Byzantine Empire - 867-1453, Constantinople, Eastern Roman...
- The Last Years of Justinian I
It was fortunate then that before 561 East Roman agents had...
- Andronicus II
Byzantium became a vassal state of the Turks, pledged to pay...
- Diocletian, Constantine, Reforms
The means they adopted to achieve those ends differ so...
- East Rome, Christianity, Constantinople
After 550, it is possible to begin to speak of a medieval...
- Estrangement, West, Religion
The 6th century: from East Rome to Byzantium. The years of...
- Iconoclasm, Religion, Empire
Byzantine Empire - Iconoclasm, Religion, Empire: For more...
- Barbarians, Relations, Trade
Byzantine Empire - Barbarians, Relations, Trade: Those...
- Empress Theodora, detail of a wall mosaic, 6th century; in the Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.
- Heraclius, gold coin; in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
- Justinian II, gold solidus, 7th–8th century; in the British Museum.
- Transfiguration of Christ, mosaic icon, early 13th century; in the Louvre, Paris.
- Leo III, gold solidus, 8th century; in the British Museum.
- From 867 to The Ottoman Conquest
5 days ago · Despite the eventual recovery of Constantinople and re-establishment of the Empire in 1261, Byzantium remained only one of several small rival states in the area for the final two centuries of its existence.
4 days ago · Byzantine Empire - 867-1453, Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire: Under the Macedonians, at least until the death of Basil II in 1025, the empire enjoyed a golden age. Its armies regained the initiative against the Arabs in the East, and its missionaries evangelized the Slavs, extending Byzantine influence in Russia and the Balkans.
4 days ago · After 550, it is possible to begin to speak of a medieval Byzantine, rather than an ancient East Roman, empire. Of the four traumas that eventually transformed the one into the other—namely, pestilence, warfare, social upheaval, and the Arab Muslim assault of the 630s—the first two were features of Justinian’s reign.
Jun 26, 2024 · A podcast telling the story of the Roman Empire from 476 AD to 1453. Episode 300 – The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors. Posted onJune 26, 2024by thehistoryofbyzantium. Picture: Justinian | Heraclius | Basil II | Alexios Komnenos, from thecollector.com. For our 300th episode I decided to do something different.
3 days ago · The city of Byzantium, the center of Byzantine civilization, was located on the western side of the Bosphorus Strait. It is currently known as Istanbul and is the capital of Türkiye. . The Byzantine Empire covered, for much of its history, the territories of the current countries of Turkey and Greece.
Jun 25, 2024 · The Pecheneg invasion of Byzantium, which began in 1046-47, the Byzantine defeat by the Seljuks at the battle of Mantzikert in 1171, and internal political instability after 1025 opened the way for the occupation of Asia Minor by Turkish warlords and the Norman invasion of the empire in 1081.
