Learn the true definition of the term ~'Byzantine.~' Discover facts about the Byzantine Empire's culture and a timeline of the major events which...
Fall of Constantinople, (May 29, 1453), conquest ofConstantinoplebySultanMehmed IIof theOttoman Empire. The dwindlingByzantine Empirecame to an end when the OttomansbreachedConstantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days. Mehmed surrounded Constantinople from land and sea whil...
Hopefully that'll give me room to get a successful game going before I start publishing again. Again, during the CK2 era, I will be roleplaying the rulers. The overarching goal is to restore the Empire (including pushing it to its largest historical borders), but specific...
The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed.
Before we delve into thehistory of the Byzantine Empire, let’s go back a little and talk about the last years of theRoman Empireshortly. Therefore, we can have a more clear picture of how the Eastern Roman Empire, aka the Byzantine Empire, was founded. As we uncover thefacts about the...
Ancient Egypt - Byzantine Empire, Trade, Religion: Diocletian was the last reigning Roman emperor to visit Egypt, in 302 ce. Within about 10 years of his visit, the persecution of Christians ceased. The end of persecution had such far-reaching effects th
“I’m not going to desecrate the memory of the men and women who died so that I could be born. MacArthur was going to drop atomic bombs on Beijing. Is that really the kind of empire you want to defend?”Some of our friends in college thought of Jianwen as a Chinese nationalist, ...
Constantinople was declared a co-capital at a time when theRoman Empirewas on the verge of collapse and suddenly became the most important city of the empire. Constantine the Great saw a potential in Byzantium, an ancient Greek city, and rebuilt it between 324 and 330, turning it into a ...
A challenge posed by "Romania" is how to naturally substitute its use for "Byzantium" or the "Byzantine Empire" if we wish to avoid using expressions that are modern inventions, unused in the Middle Ages, and which reflect a persistent ideology that is really hostile to the identity of the...
and crumbled before the Persian onslaught. By the start of the 7th century, the emperor was a virtual prisoner in his own palace, the Persians were beneath the walls of Constantinople, and the rest of the Empire was in the hands of rebels. It looked as if the end had come at last, ...