Byzantine Empire alsoEastern Empire An empire of the eastern Mediterranean region, dating fromad395 when the Roman Empire was partitioned into eastern and western portions. Its extent varied greatly over the centuries, but its core remained the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor. The empire collapsed ...
Date: c.1326 - 1460 Related Places: Greece Byzantine Empire See all related content Despotate of Morea,autonomousByzantineprincipality located on the Greek Peloponnese (Morea). It was established in the mid-14th century by the Byzantine emperorJohn VI Cantacuzenus(reigned 1347–54) as an appanag...
As a vassal state, Byzantium paid tribute to the sultan and provided him with military support. Under John’s successors, the empire gained sporadic relief from Ottoman oppression, but the rise of Murad II as sultan in 1421 marked the end of the final respite. ...
He is thought to have intended making Rome once more the capital of the empire. In 668, however, he was murdered in Syracuse, during a military uprising, and with him these vast plans came to an end. His son, Constantine IV, was very young at the time of his accession; still he ...
This event marked the end of the Byzantine Empire and the last Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos. Constantinople's fall symbolized the end of the Eastern Roman Empire and the shift of political power from Rome to the burgeoning Ottoman Empire. ...
Mints. Constantinople was the main Byzantine mint from the beginning all the way until the end of the empire. There were many other mints that issued coins for limited time periods. For example, coins of Nicomedia and Cyzicus are common from the sixth to eighth centuries even though both citi...
(translated into Slavonic). After the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, the era continued to be used by Russia, which witnessed millennialist movements in Moscow in AD 1492 (7000 AM) due to the end of the Church calendar. It was only in AD 1700 that the Byzantine Era in Russia...
After the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque. Subsequently, perhaps over time, the mosaics were covered up with plaster and painted decorations.1To finalize the process, the mosaics were uniformly covered with plaster sometime between 1847-1849, at th...
In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom, the seat of the Byzantine emperor, Christ's vice-regent on earth, and the center of a predominately Christian empire, steeped in Greek cultural and artistic influences, yet founded and maintained by a...
“The Byzantine Empire was the longest-lasting empire in human history, and it left an indelible mark on the world.” In the early 13th century,Constantinople was sackedand this marked the beginning of the Empire’s rapid decline. The end of the Empire came in 1453 when Constantinople fell ...