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| - Byzantine Empire is another name given to the Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantine Emporer: For more Byzantine articles:
- The origins of the great civilization known as the Byzantine Empire can be traced to 330 A.D., when the Roman emperor Constantine I dedicated a “new Rome” on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium (Province). Though the western half of the Roman Empire crumbled and fell in 476 AD, the eastern half survived for 1,000 more years, spawning a rich tradition of art, literature and learning and serving as a military buffer between the states of Europe and the threat of invasion from Asia. The Byzantine Empire finally fell in 1453, after an Ottoman army stormed Constantinople during the reign of Constantine XI.
- The Empire itself existed for roughly a thousand years; there was no precise "founding" date, but rather a series of decisions made by the Roman Empire that saw the Byzantine Empire eventually split off and grow into its own entity. The Empire finally fell in the 15th century to the Ottoman Empire, with Constantinople surrendering in 1453.
- The Byzantine Empire is Fingolfin_Noldor's nation.
- The Byzantine Empire was the name given to the Eastern half of the Roman Empire after the empire was divided. The capital was at Constantinople.
- The Byzantine Empire is a powerful empire in eastern Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. Consisting of Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, and the rest of Northern Africa, it is powerful.
- The Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are recent names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages. The ancient Roman Empire having been divided into two parts, an Eastern and a Western, the Eastern remained subject to successors of Constantine, whose capital was at Byzantium or Constantinople. __TOC__
- The Byzantine Empire was an ancient Human government, noted for its complex customs and social heirarchy. James T. Kirk considered Starfleet's decision making ability to be that of a Byzantine bureaucracy. (TOS novel: The Fearful Summons)
- The Eastern Roman Empire's evolution from the ancient Roman Empire is sometimes dated from Emperor Constantine I's transfer of the capital from Nicomedia (in Anatolia) to Byzantium on the Bosphorus, which became Constantinople (alternatively "New Rome"). By the 7th century, the Empire had taken on a distinct character; reforms under Emperor Heraclius (610–641 CE) changed the nature of the Byzantine army and recognized Greek as the official language.
- The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire, known to its inhabitants as the Roman Empire, the Empire of the Romans (Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rōmaíōn) and also as Romania (Ῥωμανία, Rōmanía), was the continuation of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors in direct succession to the ancient Roman Emperors. The Empire preserved Romano-Hellenistic traditions, but due to the increasing predominance of the Greek language, it became known to most of its western and northern contemporaries usually as the Empire of the Greeks. In the Islamic world it was known primarily as روم (Rûm "Rome"). The term "Byzantine Empire" was popularized by historians during the 16th – 19th centuries.
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