Byzantium: faith and power 1261 - 1557

Byzantium - a country that has greatly contributed to the development of medieval European culture. Here Christianity became the first official religion. Christianity influenced Byzantine art. In Byzantine art, painting theme - icon (Greece - image) is a saint: Christ, Virgin Mary, saints, and apostles. The most famous of these is the icon of the 13th century angel Gabriel, Byzantine (Constantinople or Sinai?). An exhibition on the art of Byzantine civilization was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The name Byzantine empire derives from Byzantium, the original Greek name for Constantinople. This name is a modern noun and it is different from that of the same era. The word Byzantine Empire was invented in 1557 about a century after the German historian Hieronymus Wolfe died in Constantinople. The medieval Greek history did not attract attention. Their ancient predecessors

In the summer of 552, after ignoring sufficient financial and logistical support for the hopeless power of the summer of 552, 35 thousand troops, mostly Asians and German mercenaries, in 552 It was applied in the summer. With the best effort

The term "Byzantine" was first used in 1557 when the German historian Hieronymus Wolf published a series of historical materials "Corpus Stadium Byzantine" in the late Roman Empire. This word comes from "Byzantine" which is the name that Constantinople became the capital of Konstantin. From this point, except for the context of history and poetry, the name of the Old Town is rarely used. Byzantine du Louvre (Byzantinae), published in 1648, and Historia Byzantina of Du Cange in 1680, further promoted the use of Byzantium in French writers such as Montesquieu. However, only in the mid-nineteenth century the term became commonly used in Western European countries.