how did the byzantine empire began?
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The beginnings of the Byzantine Empire lie in the decision of Roman emperor Constantine I to relocate the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium on 11 May 330 CE. The popular name Constantinople or 'City of Constantine' soon replaced the emperor's own official choice of 'New Rome'.
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Explanation: Constantine believed that the Empire was simply too large to be managed as one entity, therefore he split it into two halves. The Western half and the eastern half now referred to as the Byzantine Empire.
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There are no Byzantine family members, no Byzantine Empire, its all made up by a Bavarian art Historian, in 1557, nearly 100 years after the supposedly Byzantine Empire ended. It was the Eastern Roman empire, with no mention of Bulgarian empire or Serbian empire by any Roman Historian.
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Built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, it remained the largest church of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire until 1453, when it was converted into an Ottoman mosque upon the fall of the city. In 1931 it became a secular museum, and in 2020 will re-open as a mosque.
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The reason the “Byzantine” Empire, and as an extention Greeks, didn't become more Roman, is because what we call “Roman” in fact became more and more Greek. Not only after the fall of the western lands but even prior to it, the empire had to a significant extent a…”Greek aura” surrounding it.
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While the Western Roman Empire crumbled and fell by 476, the Byzantine one flourished and lasted until 1453 when Constantinople was finally taken by the Ottomans. The Byzantine Empire lasted over 1,100 years and in this article, I will look at 7 reasons for its longevity.
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The Byzantine Empire (or Eastern Roman Empire) was the name of the eastern remnant of the Roman Empire which survived into the Middle Ages. Its capital was Constantinople, which today is in Turkey and is now called Istanbul.
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It wasn't called the Byzantine Empire until after it fell. Though largely Greek-speaking and Christian, the Byzantines called themselves “Romaioi,” or Romans, and they still subscribed to Roman law and reveled in Roman culture and games.
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Constantinople was the center of Byzantine trade and culture and was incredibly diverse. The Byzantine Empire had an important cultural legacy, both on the Orthodox Church and on the revival of Greek and Roman studies, which influenced the Renaissance.
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Techniques. Like other mosaics, Byzantine mosaics are made of small pieces of glass, stone, ceramic, or other material called tesserae. During the Byzantine period, craftsmen expanded the materials that could be turned into tesserae, beginning to include gold leaf and precious stones, and perfected their construction.
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Political Strength, Military, and Economic Strength were the three strengths of the Byzantine Empire.
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Byzantine Empire Flourishes The eastern emperors were able to exert more control over the empire's economic resources and more effectively muster sufficient manpower to combat invasion.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORYMAY 11 On this day in 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, an act that helped transform it into a leading city of the world.
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There were many factors that allowed the Byzantine Empire to last a 1000 years after the end of the Roman Empire which include the fact that Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was protected with walls that lasted almost the entire 1000 years, making Constantinople, and the center of the empire's ...
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The Byzantines and Persians were basically the superpowers of the region and time period. Now while they had direct wars here or there, the most destructive one they had was in the 600's. It would prove to be their last. While they were at war a new religion was growing in the Arabian peninsula known as Islam.
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Constantinople is an ancient city in modern-day Turkey that's now known as Istanbul. ... Constantinople stood as the seat of the Byzantine Empire for the next 1,100 years, enduring periods of great fortune and horrific sieges, until being overrun by Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
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Government: The Romans created an empire that lasted 500 years. The Greek civilization was a collection of city-states, and were not united under one central government until they were conquered by Alexander the Great.