Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire is also known as the Eastern Roman Empire. Because it is actually the continuation of the Roman Empire to the Eastern. On the largest scale of the year 500 AD, Byzantium contained parts of Southern Europe and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

The Byzantines call themselves Romans, but in reality they are descendants of various ancient countries, but they speak Greek. In fact, the word Byzantium comes from "Byzantine" which is the Greek name of the Bosphorus. Before Alexander the Great brought his troops to Anatolia (334 B.C.), the Greeks first settled in this area in the mid 1600 B.C. Even after the area became part of the Roman Empire in 100 BC, the Greek culture continued to influence. However it was then that Roman Emperor Constantine moved from Rome to Byzantium to the empire's capital and renamed Constantinople (today's Istanbul) to Byzantine Empire in 330 AD. It lasted more than a thousand years, finally when the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 and renamed it Istanbul.

Christianity had a great impact on Byzantine's art, music and architecture. Because Constantinople is the political center of the empire, it is also the center of education and future government officials will learn to read and write the language of ancient Greece. Therefore, this era has outstanding works among history, exquisite poetry and many religious prose. Every visual art is also booming. Most artists are servants of the court or belong to religious groups and are still anonymous. Ivory sculpture, the Byzantine cross, "lighting" or small manuscript prove their skills. Almost all Byzantine style buildings survived its church, its marvelous murals and mosaics. In the case of Hagia Sophia, their architects and craftsmen have reached a really wonderful height.

In 1100, the Byzantine Empire was able to maintain the rule of the empire although it was trivial, but the expansion and prosperity of the empire was repeated with the internal religious division (such as the riot of Nica) and the external enemies It was balanced by the war of. After all, the Ottoman Empire has overcome the exhausted Byzantine and celebrated the era of new leadership weakened by the wave of frequent attacks. However, the Byzantine empire keeps its mark on culture and will never completely disappear after conquest.

In the latter part of the eastern part of Italy, it was under the rule of the Chathanis dynasty and the Byzantine empire until the Byzantine Pope in the mid-eighth century of the 7th century. As the Byzantine Empire gradually weakened under the pressure of Muslim conquests, "medieval" officially began and Ravenna's Exarchate ended up under the rule of 751 Lombard. Domination of Lombard ended with invasion of Charlemagne in 773, the Italian kingdom and the papal country were established. This was a precedent of Italy's major political confrontation between the Pope and the Roman Empire over the centuries and eventually led to a conflict between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV in 1077. I will go to Canosa

Since the Byzantine Empire came from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire has many similarities with Rome. This includes culture, religion, and place. These similarities and differences helped shape the image of the Byzantine Empire. The similarity between the two empires is the form of entertainment that occurs in these cultures. Both the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire both like to watch the gladiator competition in the large stadium.

The so-called "Byzantine Empire" is not a product of the Roman Empire. This is the continuation of the Roman Empire. Byzantine Empire is a term made by a historian, showing the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the collapse of the west (it has been around for nearly 1000 years). The so-called "Byzantine" does not even know the word. They claim that their empire is the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire of the Roman Empire, or the Romanian Latin or Basilian Roman, Archeton Rhomaion or Rhomania, all of which are identical to Greek. Romanian is not related to the country that was later called Romania (it means the Roman country). Shortly after the collapse of the Roman Empire, it was used to show the fact that some of this empire became the center of Greece and Greece shortly after losing most of the territory outside Greece.