BYZANTIUM

BYZANTIUM POWER IN THE MIDDLE AGES

The Byzantine Empire is interesting from many points of view. Mostly I find it interesting that the Roman institutions remained during the Middle Ages. While ignorance and fanaticism took over the West, only City: Constantinople was the light and was the military power of the time. It was during the Byzantine Empire to the Greek World got its point of maximum expansion.

Respect of the eastern survived the fall of Rome, Wallbank, W. et al wrote (1984, p. 173):

         “In southeastern Europe, on a Peninsula between the Black and Aegean seas, lies the modern-day city of Istanbul. On its site, a Greek colony called Byzantium was begun in the 7^th century B.C. This colony fell under Roman control in 196 A.D.

         Constantine, emperor of Rome from 306 to 337 A.D., ordered a new city built on the site of this Greek colony. In 330, it became the second capital of the Roman Empire. The city was named Constantinople, or the city of Constantine. It became a thriving metropolis and the center of a new civilization, usually called Byzantine after the original Greek settlement.

         The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire. After the death of Emperor Theodosius in 395, two emperors ruled the Roman Empire –one in the east at Constantinople and one in the west al Rome. While Germanic tribes invaded the western empire, the eastern empire stood firm.”

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