On 4th September 476, one of history’s great anti-climaxes unfolded. An empire that once spanned from the northern edges of Britain to the desert …
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The Byzantine Empire's Greatest Moments
After the fall of Rome,the Byzantine went through a difficult period in which it struggled to survive, however it would rise again multiple times to become the richest, most successful state in Europe.
One of the greatest achievements of emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE) was the Reconquest of the Roman West. After more than half a century of …
Basil II was arguably one of the Byzantine Empire’s ‘greatest’ emperors. His reign was the longest of any emperor, and during his 65 years on the …
By our standards, living in antiquity was full of hardships regardless of where you look. In its almost 1000 years some periods were significantly …
From the first partition of the Roman Empire in 284, the Eastern or ‘Byzantine’ Empire as it came to be known, was an economic powerhouse. With an …
The Byzantine Empire, also known as Byzantium, was a cultural and political powerhouse during Late Antiquity and into the Middle Ages. Its ideology …
Amid the ‘deafening silence’ of Western political, cultural, and theological circles a museum has been converted to a mosque. This is an act of …
