While the Byzantine Empire was flourishing, western Europe languished in spiritual and cultural darkness. |
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While its connections with the Byzantine Empire were friendly, there were wars with the Franconians. |
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The symbol of the Byzantine Empire is also impressive. It is signifiable in the floor of the church. |
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The Sassanians consolidated all territories east to China and India, and engaged successfully with the Byzantine Empire. |
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After the fall of Rome, theoretical studies on military science continued in the Byzantine empire and in the Arab world. |
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The art of painting icons has its origins in the Byzantine empire of the sixth and seventh century. |
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Malta remained under the Byzantine Empire until 870, when it fell to the Arabs. |
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Hopes for a lasting alliance with the Byzantine Empire had also come up against insuperable problems. |
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The Nicaean throne was usurped by Michael VIII Palaiologos, that aimed at reconquest of the lands once owned by the Byzantine Empire. |
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The next two hundred years were occupied in trying to conquer these territories from the Byzantine Empire. |
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The level of literacy was considerably higher in the Byzantine Empire than in the Latin West. |
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The Byzantine Empire considered Constantine its founder and the Holy Roman Empire reckoned him among the venerable figures of its tradition. |
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Greek remained the language of the Byzantine Empire, but the migrations of the Slavs added Slavic languages to Eastern Europe. |
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By 1018, the last Bulgarian nobles had surrendered to the Byzantine Empire. |
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Roman law continued without interruption in the Byzantine Empire until its final fall in the 15th century. |
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During most of its existence, the Byzantine Empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. |
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In the east a resurgent Byzantine Empire recaptured Crete and Cyprus from the Muslims and reconquered the Balkans. |
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Although Greek continued as the language of the Byzantine Empire, linguistic distribution in the East was more complex. |
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It became the capital of the Empire for more than a thousand years, and the later Eastern Empire was known as the Byzantine Empire. |
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Corfu, Paxi and Kythera were taken by the Venetians in 1204, after the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire by the Fourth Crusade. |
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The term Varangian remained in usage in the Byzantine Empire until the 13th century, largely disconnected from its Scandinavian roots by then. |
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By contrast, the Eastern Roman Empire, mostly known as the Greek or Byzantine Empire, survived and even thrived for another 1000 years. |
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Ottoman power based in Anatolia continued to grow, and in 1453 extinguished the Byzantine Empire with the Conquest of Constantinople. |
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It would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire and develop into Medieval Greek. |
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After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 the Russian princes started to see themselves as the heirs of the Byzantine Empire. |
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The Byzantine Empire had for a long time dominated the eastern Mediterranean in politics and culture. |
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With the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was permanently extinguished. |
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The Byzantine Empire ruled the northern shores of the Sahara from the 5th to the 7th centuries. |
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In the Early Middle Ages, after the Roman Empire's decline, the Adriatic's coasts were ruled by Ostrogoths, Lombards and the Byzantine Empire. |
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Although the Geographica was rarely utilized in its contemporary antiquity, a multitude of copies survived throughout the Byzantine Empire. |
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After the division of the Roman Empire, Anatolia became part of the East Roman, or Byzantine Empire. |
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As in the Byzantine Empire, the Roma were held as slaves of the state, of the boyars or of the monasteries. |
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He was uniquely poised to fight the Byzantine Empire when that conflict arose after Charlemagne's imperial coronation and a Venetian rebellion. |
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Contact with the Byzantine Empire increased, culminating in the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988, during the reign of Vladimir the Great. |
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Like Vladimir, Yaroslav was eager to improve relations with the rest of Europe, especially the Byzantine Empire. |
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By 1130 all descendants of Vseslav the Seer were exiled to the Byzantine Empire by Mstislav the Great. |
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The Byzantine Empire was known to support the Pechenegs in their military campaigns against the Eastern Slavic states. |
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In 1448, not long before the Byzantine Empire collapsed, the Russian Church gained independence from the Patriarch of Constantinople. |
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In the 14th century, much of the Greek peninsula was lost by the Byzantine Empire at first to the Serbs and then to the Ottomans. |
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Later influences from the Roman Empire, Middle East, and the Byzantine Empire also had effect on Greek music. |
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The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 finally ended the Byzantine Empire. |
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By 1025, the date of Basil II's death, the Byzantine Empire stretched from Armenia in the east to Calabria in Southern Italy in the west. |
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The Byzantine Empire was a theocracy, said to be ruled by God working through the Emperor. |
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For most of its history, the Byzantine Empire did not know or use heraldry in the West European sense. |
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The situation was a serious threat to the future the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire. |
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By 1016, they were involved in the complex local politics where Lombards were fighting against the Byzantine Empire. |
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The capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans of Mehmed II on 29 May 1453 put an end to the eleven centuries of the Byzantine Empire. |
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Turkmeni marching lords seized land around the western part of the Silk Road from the decaying Byzantine Empire. |
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In 1453, however, the Ottomans took Constantinople and so the Byzantine Empire was no more. |
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Nicholas V's nephew, Loukas Notaras, was Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire. |
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The seizure of Constantinople proved as decisive a factor in ending the Byzantine Empire as the loss of the Anatolian themes after Manzikert. |
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After the fall of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, the town came under the protection of the Byzantine Empire. |
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The remaining part of the Roman Empire, in the eastern Mediterranean, continued as what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. |
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Once in the eastern Mediterranean they bought up the local gold bezant coins of the Byzantine empire or Arabic dinars and ultimately these became a source of gold for Europe. |
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As the West crumbled, books and libraries flourished and flowed east toward the Byzantine Empire. |
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In 1275 the Byzantine Empire granted the islands of Chios and Samos to Genoa. |
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They came to control a large portion of the trade of the Byzantine Empire, Tripoli, the Principality of Antioch, Armenia, and Egypt. |
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The Byzantine Empire had granted the majority of free trading rights to Genoa. |
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The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror. |
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This was an extensive reform of the law in the Byzantine Empire, bringing it together into codified documents. |
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The Venetians also gained extensive trading privileges in the Byzantine Empire during the 12th century, and their ships often provided the Empire with a navy. |
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Rurik had successfully been able to establish a set of trading towns and posts along the Volga and Dnieper Rivers, which were perfect for trade with the Byzantine Empire. |
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As Venice's relations with the Byzantine Empire were temporarily disrupted by the Fourth Crusade and its aftermath, Genoa was able to improve its position. |
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Part of the Muslims' success was due to the exhaustion of the Byzantine empire in its decades long conflict with Persia. |
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At that period the Republic of Genoa also controlled one quarter of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, and Trebizond, capital of the Empire of Trebizond. |
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But in the sixth century, another Germanic tribe known as the Longobards invaded Italy, which in the meantime had been reconquered by the East Roman or Byzantine Empire. |
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The alliance with the restored Byzantine Empire increased the wealth and power of Genoa, and simultaneously decreased Venetian and Pisan commerce. |
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This usage, however, was adopted by the Visigoths themselves in their communications with the Byzantine Empire and was still in use in the 7th century. |
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The Khazars dominated the Black Sea steppe during the 8th century, trading and frequently allying with the Byzantine Empire against Persians and Arabs. |
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The Orthodox millet, for instance, was still officially legally subject to Justinian's Code, which had been in effect in the Byzantine Empire for 900 years. |
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Nor did its Germanic traditions offer any code of civil law required of urbanised society, such as Justinian I caused to be assembled and promulgated in the Byzantine Empire. |
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Early in the 10th century during the Byzantine Empire, Leo VI the Wise outlawed the production of blood sausages following cases of food poisoning. |
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Under Emperor Gaozong, Tang general Su Dingfang conquered the Western Turkic Khaganate, which was an important ally of Byzantine empire. |
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As a sect, the Nestorians were often persecuted as heretics by the Byzantine Empire, but Bahrain was outside the Empire's control, offering some safety. |
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In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror besieged the capital of the Byzantine Empire, resulting in the Fall of Constantinople after 1,500 years of Roman rule. |
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There were several differences between the newly established Carolingian Empire and both the older Western Roman Empire and the concurrent Byzantine Empire. |
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The term Byzantine Empire is used today to refer to what remained of the Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean following the collapse of the Empire in the West. |
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The uprising of brothers Asen and Peter was a revolt of Bulgarians and Vlachs living in the theme of Paristrion of the Byzantine Empire, caused by a tax increase. |
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After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, the Morea was the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire to hold out against the Ottomans. |
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It is said to derive from a legend that Saint George had voyaged to Roman Britain from the Byzantine Empire, approaching Britain via the channel that bears his name. |
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However, in late 533 or early 534, following the Battle of Ad Decimum, the troops of Belisarius reestablished control of the islands for the Byzantine Empire. |
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Byzantine philosophy refers to the distinctive philosophical ideas of the philosophers and scholars of the Byzantine Empire, especially between the 8th and 15th centuries. |
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The Church remained the most stable element in the Byzantine Empire. |
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It has been ruled by various ancient Greek entities, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Emirate of Crete, the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. |
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Later, with the conquest of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks, missionaries would find easier passage to the lands then formerly belonging to the Byzantine Empire. |
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Temporarily the east was again dominant as Roman power lived on in the Byzantine Empire formed in the 4th century from the eastern half of the Roman empire. |
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During the Byzantine Empire the Justinian Code was expanded and remained in force until the Empire fell, though it was never officially introduced to the West. |
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Soon after the Normans began to enter Italy, they entered the Byzantine Empire and then Armenia, fighting against the Pechenegs, the Bulgars, and especially the Seljuk Turks. |
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From the 10th century until the end of the 12th, the Byzantine Empire projected an image of luxury and travellers were impressed by the wealth accumulated in the capital. |
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The Byzantine Empire soon lost the lands of the eastern patriarchates of Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch and was reduced to that of Constantinople, the empire's capital. |
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Roman law as preserved in Justinian's codes continued into the Byzantine Empire, and formed the basis of similar codifications in continental Western Europe. |
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By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had subjugated the Persian Empire, drastically reduced the size of the Byzantine Empire, and eliminated the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. |
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As early as 839, when Swedish emissaries are first known to have visited Byzantium, Scandinavians served as mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine Empire. |
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In 752 AD the Lombards overthrew the Exarchate, ending the influence of the Byzantine Empire on the western shore of the Adriatic for a few centuries. |
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The Rus' withdrew and the Byzantine Empire incorporated eastern Bulgaria. |
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The Turks were then free to invade Asia Minor, which dealt a dangerous blow to the Byzantine Empire by seizing a large part of its population and its economic heartland. |
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These communities were subjected to the authority of the Byzantine Empire. |
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This usage, however, was adopted by the Visigoths themselves in their communications with the Byzantine Empire and was in use in the seventh century. |
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Thracians in Moesia and Dacia were Romanized, while those within the Byzantine empire were their Hellenized descendants that had mingled with the Greeks. |
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Charles I, the Angevin king of Sicily and Naples, had a grand scheme for a Mediterranean empire under the French auspices, succeeding the declining Byzantine empire. |
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