Byzantine Empire

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empire medieval empire state successor state of the Roman Empire

The Byzantine Empire was the eastern continuation of the Roman Empire, centered on Constantinople, renowned for its Orthodox Christian culture, Greek-speaking administration, and preservation of classical knowledge through the Middle Ages.

Aliases (17)

Eastern Roman Empire ×83
Byzantine period ×22
Byzantine era ×6
Byzantine ×2
Byzantine Empire (historically) ×2
Roman East ×2
Basileia Rhomaion ×1
Byzantine East ×1
Byzantine Empire (in Anatolia and Balkans) ×1
Byzantine Empire (periodically) ×1
Byzantine civilization ×1
Byzantine state ×1
Byzantines ×1
Christian Roman Empire ×1
Eastern Roman Empire (early 4th century) ×1
Roman Empire (Eastern part) ×1
Roman Empire (late antiquity) ×1

Statements (76)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	empire → medieval empire → state → successor state of the Roman Empire →
administrativeLanguage	Greek →
alsoKnownAs	Byzantium → Eastern Roman Empire →
architectureStyle	Byzantine architecture →
artStyle	Byzantine art →
capital	Constantinople →
capitalEstablished	330 →
capitalRenamedFrom	Byzantium →
capitalRenamedTo	Constantinople →
churchSplitWith	Roman Catholic Church →
conflict	Arab–Byzantine wars → Byzantine–Bulgarian wars → Byzantine–Sassanian wars → Crusades →
continent	Africa → Asia → Europe →
culturalInfluence	Eastern Orthodox Church → Islamic world → Slavic peoples →
currency	hyperpyron → solidus →
dynasty	Constantinian dynasty → Heraclian dynasty → Justinian dynasty → Komnenos dynasty → Macedonian dynasty → Palaiologos dynasty →
endTime	1453 →
event	Fall of Constantinople in 1453 → Fourth Crusade → Iconoclasm → Sack of Constantinople in 1204 →
experienced	Great Schism of 1054 →
followedBy	Ottoman Empire →
foundedBy	Constantine the Great →
governmentForm	absolute monarchy → autocracy →
legalSystem	Roman law →
majorReligionCenter	Patriarchate of Constantinople →
navalPower	Mediterranean Sea →
notableBuilding	Hagia Sophia →
notableLegalCode	Corpus Juris Civilis →
notableRuler	Alexios I Komnenos → Basil II → Constantine XI Palaiologos → Heraclius → Justinian I →
officialChurch	Eastern Orthodox Church →
officialLanguage	Greek →
otherEthnicGroup	Armenians → Illyrians → Slavs → Thracians →
partOf	Late Antiquity → Middle Ages →
precededBy	Roman Empire →
preserved	Roman law tradition → classical Greek literature →
primaryEthnicGroup	Greeks →
region	Anatolia → Balkans → Eastern Mediterranean → Levant →
religion	Christianity → Eastern Orthodox Christianity →
splitFrom	Western Roman Empire →
startTime	330 →
stateReligionAdopted	Christianity as state religion →
stateReligionAdoptedBy	Theodosius I →
usedWeapon	Greek fire →
writingSystem	Greek alphabet →

Referenced by (441)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Antioch on the Orontes → Basil II → Byzantine Iconoclasm → Byzantine Iconoclasm → Byzantine navy → Constantine IV → Constantine VI → Constantine XI Palaiologos → Council of Hieria → Council of Hieria → Despot of the Morea → Emperor of the Romans → Empress Licinia Eudoxia ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Fourth Council of Constantinople → Heraclian dynasty → Heraclius → Justinian dynasty → Justinianic reconquests → Komnenos dynasty → Macedonian dynasty → Manuel II Palaiologos → Palaiologos dynasty → Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople → Pulcheria ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Pyrrhus of Constantinople → Second Council of Ephesus → Second Council of Nicaea → Second Council of Nicaea → Theodore II Palaiologos → Third Council of Constantinople →	country
Alexios I Komnenos → Cyril of Alexandria ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Cyrus of Alexandria → Demetrios Palaiologos → Empress Irene of Athens → Eutychius of Constantinople → Gregory Palamas → Gregory the Great → Helena Dragaš → John VIII Palaiologos → John of Antioch ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Justinian I → Marcian ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Pope Agatho → Pope Boniface IV → Pope Honorius I → Saint Cyril → Saint Methodius → Tarasios of Constantinople → Theodora Tocco → Theodosius II ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Thomas Palaiologos → Tribonian ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Zeno ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	countryOfCitizenship
Arianzum → Aspendos → Berytus → Byzantine Egypt → Byzantine Egypt ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Byzantium → Caesarea in Cappadocia → Chalcedon → Comana Pontica → Despot of the Morea → Ephesus → Erzurum ("Byzantine Empire (historically)") → Iconium → Kyrenaikē → Morea → Nicomedia → Pamphylia → Phrygia → Second Council of Constantinople → Thessaly → Thrace →	partOf
Caterina Gattilusio → Chi-Rho ("Christian Roman Empire") → Great Lavra → Iviron Monastery → Karakallou Monastery → Olga of Kiev → Philotheou Monastery → Renovatio imperii Romanorum → Saint Methodius → Saint Sava → Stavronikita Monastery → Xenophontos Monastery → hesychast tradition →	associatedWith
Alexandria, Egypt → Arcadia → Argos → Attica → Drama → Feodosia → Lesbos → Levant region → Salonika → Samothrace → Tarabulus al-Gharb → Varna →	wasPartOf
Battle of Adrianople (378) ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Christianization of the Roman Empire ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Constantinian civil war ("Eastern Roman Empire") → First Council of Constantinople → Fourth Crusade → Republic of Venice (local forces) → Siege of Constantinople 1422 → Three Chapters controversy ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Trinitarian controversies of the 4th century ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	location
Dorotheus → Maximus the Confessor → Michael I Cerularius → Nestorius ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Pope Vigilius → Pope Vigilius ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Theophilus → Tribonian →	citizenship
Alexandria ("Byzantine period") → Basilica Cistern → Cyrenaica ("Byzantine period") → Homs → Laconia ("Byzantine period") → Monastery of Saint Sabas (Mar Saba) → Sidon ("Byzantine period") →	historicalEra
Cappadocia ("Byzantine period") → Institutes → Palmyrene region ("Byzantine period") → Patriarchate of Constantinople → Sille ("Byzantine era") → Theodosian Walls ("Byzantine era") → Zadar ("Byzantine era") →	historicalPeriod
Canon 28 ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Early Middle Ages → Palladius of Helenopolis ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Palmyrene Empire ("Roman East") → Saint Isaac of Dalmatia ("Eastern Roman Empire") → School of Edessa ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Vulgar Latin ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	region
Ionia → Judea → Lydda → Perge → Selinus in Cilicia → Syene → Tarsus →	underRuleOf
Battle of Adrianople (378) ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Battle of the Frigidus ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Byzantine–Ottoman wars → Fourth Crusade → Muslim conquest of Egypt → Vandalic War in North Africa →	belligerent
Bagratid Armenia → Kingdom of Georgia → Principality of Antioch → Sasanian Empire → Seljuk Sultanate of Rum → Western Roman Empire ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	borderedBy
Body of Civil Law → Codex Justinianus → Digest → Michael I Cerularius → New History ("Eastern Roman Empire") → hyperpyron →	countryOfOrigin
Emperor of the Romans → Emperor of the Romans ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Greek fire → Mediterranean trade routes → Via Egnatia → hyperpyron ("Byzantine state") →	usedBy
Against Eunomius ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Ecclesiastical History ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Homilies on the Gospel of John → solidus ("Eastern Roman Empire") → solidus →	circulatedIn
Cumans → Duchy of Neopatras → Hauteville dynasty → Murad I → Vandals ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	conflictWith
Constantinus Magnus ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Meletius of Antioch ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Pope Honorius I → Prisca ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Symeon the New Theologian →	deathPlace
Duchy of Apulia and Calabria → Duchy of Athens → Kingdom of Sardinia → Second Bulgarian Empire → Seljuk Sultanate of Rum →	predecessor
Arab–Byzantine wars → Byzantine–Ottoman wars → Gothic War ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Roman–Persian Wars →	conflictBetween
Ancyra → Caria → Limassol Castle ("Byzantine Empire (historically)") → Nicaea →	controlledBy
Al-Khalil ("Byzantine period") → Kos ("Byzantine period") → Mount Arbel ("Byzantine period") → Tverya ("Byzantine period") →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople → Heptanese → Ionian Islands → Medieval City of Rhodes →	historicalInfluence
Apollinarianism ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Fourth Council of Constantinople ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Greeks → Tarasios of Constantinople ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	historicalRegion
Arwad → Naissus → Pelusium → Sirmium →	laterControlledBy
Bithynia → Colchis → Lycia → Moesia ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	laterPartOf
Cilician Armenia → First Bulgarian Empire → Second Bulgarian Empire → Serbian Empire →	neighbor
Bagratid Armenia → Julius Nepos ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Kingdom of Odoacer ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Majorian ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	recognizedBy
Aspendos ("Byzantine period") → Dougga ("Byzantine period") → Iconium ("Byzantine period") → Tower of David ("Byzantine period") →	timePeriod
Asia Minor → Cappadocia → Cyrenaica → Pontus →	wasProvinceOf
Pope Agatho → Saint Cyril → Symeon the New Theologian →	birthPlace
Antioch on the Orontes → Crete → Vandal Kingdom →	conqueredBy
Byzantine architecture → Byzantine chant → Greek fire →	developedIn
John of Damascus ("Byzantine era") → Maximus the Confessor ("Byzantine era") → Pyrrhus of Constantinople →	era
Irbid ("Byzantine period") → Kadifekale ("Byzantine period") → Veria ("Byzantine period") →	hasHistoricPeriod
Byzantine poetry → People's Crusade → Photian Schism →	hasLocation
Antioch → Second Council of Constantinople ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Tarsus →	locatedIn
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars → Roman–Persian Wars → Visigothic–Roman conflicts ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	mainBelligerent
Alaric I ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Bohemond I of Antioch → Siege of Constantinople 1422 →	opponent
Eutychius of Constantinople ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Jacob of Serugh ("Roman East") → Macarius of Antioch →	regionOfActivity
Byblos → Sidon → Tyre →	ruledBy
Orhan Çelebi → Theodore II Palaiologos →	allegiance
Kingdom of Georgia → Republic of Venice (local forces) →	alliedWith
Novellae Constitutiones ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Novellae Constitutiones →	appliesTo
Body of Civil Law ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Emperor of the Romans ("Roman Empire (Eastern part)") →	appliesToJurisdiction
Genseric ("Eastern Roman Empire") → al-Ma'mun →	conflict
Nicaea → Teos →	countryDuringByzantinePeriod
Dorotheus → Saint Isaac of Dalmatia →	countryOfActivity
Kyivan Rus → Vlach (Aromanian people) →	culturalInfluenceFrom
Eastern Orthodox canon law → Monothelitism →	developedInContextOf
Latin Empire → Roman Empire →	followedBy
Rhodes → Sabratha →	governedBy
Late Antiquity ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Late Antiquity →	hasMajorRegion
Gothic War ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Mongol invasions of Europe →	hasParticipant
Holy Land → Palestine →	historicalControlBy
Edirne → Edirne ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	historicallyPartOf
Balkans → Dobruja →	historicallyRuledBy
Christianization of Bulgaria → Ivan III of Russia →	influencedBy
Istanbul ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Istanbul →	isCapitalOf
Body of Civil Law → Corpus Juris Civilis →	jurisdiction
Belgrade → Samaria →	laterRuledBy
Latin Empire → Ottoman Empire ("Byzantine Empire (in Anatolia and Balkans)") →	precededBy
Chi-Rho monogram → Flavius ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	regionOfUse
Diocletian ("Eastern Roman Empire") → Galerius ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	regionRuled
Chronicle of Morea → East–West Schism →	relatedTo
Fall of Constantinople 1453 AD → Fall of Constantinople 1453 AD ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	tookPlaceIn
Aksumite Empire → Gupta Empire ("Roman Empire (late antiquity)") →	tradePartner
Medieval Greek → Medieval Greek ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	usedIn
Justinianic Plague →	affectedEntity
Vladimir the Great →	alliance
First Crusade →	ally
Byzantine Empire ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	alsoKnownAs
Crisis of the Third Century ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	appliesToPart
Sebaste ("Byzantine") →	archaeologicalPeriod
Romaniote Jews →	associatedEmpire
Igor of Kiev →	associatedPeople
Romaniote Jews ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	associatedPolity
Carolingian Empire ("Byzantine Empire (periodically)") →	border
Theodosian Walls ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	builtBy
Illyrians →	cameUnderInfluenceOf
Principality of Antioch →	claimedBy
Sack of Constantinople in 1204 →	combatant
Murad I →	conqueredFrom
Caesar (imperial title) →	continuedIn
Latin West ("Byzantine East") →	contrastedWith
Council of Chalcedon →	convokedBy
Third Ecumenical Council ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	countryAtTheTime
Edessa →	countryDuringLateAntiquity
Digenis Akritas →	culturalContext
Grand Duchy of Vladimir →	culturalInfluence
Mehmed II →	defeated
Vandals →	defeatedBy
Siege of Constantinople 1422 →	defender
Digenis Akritas →	defends
Glycerius ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	deposedBy
Madonna and Child ("Byzantine period") →	developedInPeriod
imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800 →	disputedBy
Western Roman Empire ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	dividedFrom
Rule of Four ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	dividesEmpireInto
Battle of Adrianople (378) ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	empire
John Chrysostom ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	empireAtDeath
Mehmed II →	ended
al-Mu'tasim →	enemy
Franks ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	engagedWithEmpire
Silk Road routes →	extendsTo
Holy Mountain →	flourishedDuring
Yaroslav the Wise →	foreignRelations
Three Chapters →	geographicalContext
Edict of Toleration by Galerius ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	geographicalScope
Diocletianic Persecution ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	geographicExtent
Seven Ecumenical Councils ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	geographicFocus
Theodosian Code ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	geographicScope
Fall of Constantinople 1453 AD →	hasBelligerent
Byzantine art →	hasCulturalContext
Palermo ("Byzantine") →	hasCulturalInfluence
Outremer →	hasCulturalInfluenceFrom
Justinianic Plague →	hasEpicenter
İznik ("Byzantine period") →	hasHistoricalEra
Slavic cultural sphere →	hasHistoricalInfluence
Eastern Christianity →	hasHistoricalOrigin
Lemnos ("Byzantine period") →	hasHistoricalPeriodOfSignificance
Patriarchal cross →	hasHistoricalUseIn
Christianization of the Balkans →	hasInfluence
Codex Justinianus →	hasLegalForceIn
War of the Sicilian Vespers →	hasMainBelligerent
Amoraic period →	hasMainLocation
Islamic crescent →	historicalAssociation
Seven Ecumenical Councils →	historicalContext
Negev desert ("Byzantines") →	historicalInhabitants
Aegean Sea →	historicallyAssociatedWith
Eastern Europe →	historicallyInfluencedBy
Nubia →	historicallyInteractedWith
Diyarbakır ("Byzantine era") →	historicalPeriodSignificance
Mani Peninsula →	historicalRegionOf
Chios →	historicalRuler
Middle Ages →	includesCulture
Byzantine Revival ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	inspiredBy
Palaiologos dynasty →	lastRulingImperialFamilyOf
Lower Egypt →	laterUnderControlOf
Church of the Holy Apostles →	locatedInCountry
First Council of Nicaea ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	majorityOfBishopsFrom
Black Death →	majorOutbreakIn
Cumans →	migratedTo
John VIII Palaiologos →	monarchOf
Libius Severus ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	notRecognizedBy
Ostrogothic Kingdom →	opponentInWar
Byzantine Rite →	originatedIn
Greek Orthodox Church →	originatesFrom
Cappadocian Greek ("Byzantine period") →	originPeriod
Justinianic reconquests →	participant
Viking Age →	participants
Paschal canon →	placeOfOrigin
Fourteen anathemas against the Three Chapters →	politicalContext
Heraclian dynasty ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	predecessorState
Edict of Milan ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	regionOfPromulgation
Constantius II ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	reignedOver
Orhan Çelebi →	residence
Sasanian Empire →	rival
Constantine the Great ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	ruledOver
Licinius ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	ruledRegion
Macedonian dynasty →	rulingHouseOf
Ptolemaic–Roman Egypt →	rulingPower
Muslim conquest of Egypt →	rulingPowerBefore
Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople →	seeAlso
Vandal Kingdom ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	sharesBorderWith
Historic Areas of Istanbul →	significantPeriod
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church →	spiritualHeritageFrom
Slavs →	spreadInfluenceTo
Bagratid Armenia →	successor
Western Roman Empire →	successorStateClaimant
Giovanni Giustiniani →	supported
Orhan Çelebi →	supportedBy
Constantinian dynasty ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	territoryIncludes
solidus ("Byzantine period") →	timePeriodOfUse
Helena Dragaš ("Basileia Rhomaion") →	title
Kyivan Rus →	tradedWith
Chalcedon →	underControlOf
Palestinian Jews →	underOccupation
Julian calendar →	usedHistoricallyIn
Sermo Vulgaris ("Eastern Roman Empire") →	usedInRegion
Nicomedia ("Eastern Roman Empire (early 4th century)") →	wasCapitalOf
Anatolia →	wasCenterOf
Mediterranean Sea →	wasCentralTo
Tripolitania →	wasControlledBy
Asia Minor →	wasCoreTerritoryOf
Asia Minor ("Byzantine civilization") →	wasCrossroadsOf
İznik →	wasImportantCityIn
Kavala →	wasRuledBy
Tribonian →	workLocation