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THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

Why are they called byzantine?

The term “Byzantine” derives from Byzantium, an ancient Greek colony founded by a man named Byzas. ... In 330 A.D., Roman Emperor Constantine I chose Byzantium as the site of a “New Rome” with an eponymous capital city, Constantinople.

What is Constantinople?

Capital of the Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, the brief crusader state known as the Latin Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

Bosphorus Strait

Who they became The Byzantine?

Byzantines identify themselves as Romans, and continue to use the term when they become synonymous with Hellenes.

Empire and who were they before?

also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople

Name they religion:

Eastern Christianity

Name their language:

Latin, Greek