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The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred in Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Surviving the conditions that led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, it endured until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
The Empire of Nicaea (Greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων) or the Nicene Empire was the largest of the three Byzantine Greek rump states founded by the aristocracy of the Byzantine Empire that fled when Constantinople was occupied by Western European and Venetian armed forces during the Fourth Crusade, a military event known as the Sack of ...
A political map of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, in 1450. ... The following 31 pages use this file: Byzantine Empire; Byzantine–Ottoman wars ... (1300-1500 AD ...
The Eastern Roman Empire (red) and its vassals (pink) in 555 AD during the reign of Justinian I. The vassals are the Kingdom of Lazica and the Abasgians (top), and the Ghassanids (east). This was the Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent.
Byzantine Empire in the year 1350. The Byzantine Empire entered into a new era of decay in 1341. The Empire was ravaged by multiple serious disasters [18] — alongside wars and civil wars, renewed epidemics of bubonic plague swept through its diminished lands. The first outbreak occurred in 1347, and between the 1360s and 1420s, eight further ...
Topographical map of Constantinople during the Byzantine period, corresponding to the modern-day Fatih district of Istanbul. The city was known as Byzantium under Roman Empire . Constantinople (today part of Istanbul , Turkey ) was built on the land that links Europe to Asia through Bosporus and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea .
The Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae (Latin for "Partition of the lands of the empire of Romania [a] [i.e., the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire]), or Partitio regni Graeci [1] ("Partition of the kingdom of the Greeks"), was a treaty signed among the crusaders after the sack of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, by the Fourth Crusade in 1204.