Byzantine empire. This term applies to the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and reflects the fact that this empire gradually became centred on Greece and Greek culture. In 620 Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire.
The term Byzantine is derived from Byzantium the name of the Greek city which was turned into the capital of the east by Constantine I and renamed by him Roma Nova, but called Constantinople by the people.
Historians do not have a special name for the western part of the Roman Empire. Sometimes they call it western part of the Roman Empire and sometimes Western Roman Empire. They have a special name for the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part: Byzantine Empire.
We today call it the Byzantine Empire.
The Eastern Roman Empire was not affected by the Germanic invasions which precipitated the fall of the west. The Eastern Roman Empire continued to exist for another 1000 years, even though it lost many of its territories to Arab, Slav and Turkish invaders over the centuries. Historian call the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire the Byzantine Empire.
The date most often given for the fall of Rome is 476. What actually happened in 476 was that the last emperor of the West Roman Empire, the western half of the Roman Empire, abdicated in that year, in favor of the emperor of the eastern half, the East Roman Empire, or, as we call it, the Byzantine Empire.
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The Byzantine Empire.
They called in the Western Roman empire. The only change of any of the roman empires was in the eastern roman empire. The eastern roman empire changed into the Byzantine Empire
Historians do not have a special name for the western part of the Roman Empire. Sometimes they call it western part of the Roman Empire and sometimes Western Roman Empire. They have a special name for the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part: Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire
The eastern part of the Roman Empire continued to be the Roman Empire. Historians have coined the term Byzantine Empire to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of this empire. However, the people in question did not even know this term and continued to call it Roman Empire.
Byzantine, after the capital city Byzantine. They called themselves Roman but spoke Greek.
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The eastern part of the Roman Empire continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years. Historians call this part of the empire after the fall of the western part Byzantine Empire. The people in question did not even know this term and called their empire Roman Empire.
We today call it the Byzantine Empire.
The eastern part of the Roman empire bordered the Pontus Euxinus, or as we call it, the Black Sea.
The Eastern Roman Empire was not affected by the Germanic invasions which precipitated the fall of the west. The Eastern Roman Empire continued to exist for another 1000 years, even though it lost many of its territories to Arab, Slav and Turkish invaders over the centuries. Historian call the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire the Byzantine Empire.
The fall of the western part of the Roman Empire has nothing to do with democratic values. It fell under the strain of the invasions by germanic peoples who took over the empire and formed a number of separate kingdoms. The eastern part of the Roman Empire was not affected by these invasions and continued to exist for another 1,000 years. Historians call the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part Byzantine Empire.