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| | Byzantine Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Empire's most catastrophic defeat was the Battle of Yarmuk, fought in Syria. | | | Although the stated intent of the crusade was to conquer Egypt, the Venetians took control of the expedition, and under their influence the crusade captured Constantinople in 1204. | | | Byzantines identified themselves as Romaioi (Ρωμαίοι - Romans) which had already become a synonym for a Hellene (Έλλην - Greek), and more than ever before were developing a national consciousness, as residents of Ρωμανία (Romania, as the Byzantine state and its world were called). |
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| | The Empire |
| | Inasmuch as Eastern Christian marital regulations generally forbade remarriage more than once, the Patriarch of Constanople bitterly opposed the move, but attempts to keep Constantine from the succession evaporated as it became clear that he would be his fathers only male child. | | | In 395 he was summoned from Italy to defend the Eastern Empire against the Visigoths under Alaric I; but after his arrival in Greece he withdrew without fighting, under orders from Arcadius, who was influenced by his enemy and rival, Rufinus. | | | The fact remains that there was someone who could legitimately claim an unbroken line of succession to Augustus, and could legally call himself Caesar and Imperator at exactly the same time that Gutenberg was developing the printing press, and within 30 years of Columbus' discovery of the Americas. |
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| | The Eastern Roman Empire |
| | The Pope, however, did not believe the Eastern Romans to be sincere so in 1281 Charles d'Anjou and a coalition of Venetians, Serbs, Bulgars, and Greek separatists invaded the Empire. | | | The Ottomans would not again be menaced by the Arabs, whereas the Romans of Anatolia had to struggle on all fronts to the end. | | | Towards the middle of the seventh century, the Arab menace arose in the south-east. |
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| | Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc. |
| | Paul Johnson in his A History of the Jews [HarperPerennial, 1988], Jews constituted as much as 10% of the population of the Roman Empire. | | | The very same institutions, both Roman and Christian in sum and detail, that failed in the West in the face of the German threat, did just fine in the East, long outlasting, and in two dramatic cases defeating, the German successor kingdoms. | | | There is a possible connection, since the Ossetians are descendants of the Alans, and Marcus Aurelius had settled a tribe of Alans, the Iazyges, whom he had defeated in 175 and taken into Roman service, in the north of Britain, where many of them settled at Bremetenacum Veteranorum, south of Lancaster. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Byzantine Empire |
| | This is the first appearance of the two foes who were slowly but surely to bring about the destruction of the empire, and the worst feature of their case was that the Greeks themselves prepared the way for their future destroyers. | | | All the warring elements of the period — national, local, economic, social, even personal — group themselves around the prevalent theological questions, so that it is practically impossible to say, in any given case, whether the dominant motives of the parties to the quarrel were spiritual or temporal. | | | Again and again was the Byzantine Empire de facto reduced to the limits of the capital city, which Anastasius had transformed into an unrivaled fortress; and often, too, was the victory over its foes gained by troops before whose ferocity its own citizens trembled. |
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| | Byzantine: The Eastern Roman Empire |
| | The original Romans who had established the city had also long since disappeared, and it was only through repeated White armies rushing to the city's aid because of its Christian status, that is was not overrun centuries before its final collapse. | | | The by now thoroughly mixed race Persians then launched an attack of the easternmost reaches of the Byzantine Empire - only with a superhuman effort were the Persians beaten in 628 AD, leading to the recapture of Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. | | | Justinian, who reigned from 527 to 565 AD, had been able to seize a large slice of North Africa from the remnants of the Vandals in 533, and thus had a good base for an invasion of Italy. |
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| | Rome: The Late Empire |
| |  & was like Diocletian in his affection for eastern ways of life and eastern views of monarchy. | | | (A more thorough discussion of the Nicene Council and the history of Christianity in the late Empire can be found in the module, "Early Christianity") | | | His sons all adopted Christianity as well, but the emperor, Julian the Apostate (361-363), opposed the religion and tried to undo it by dismissing all the Christians from the government. |
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| | Restoration of the Eastern Roman Empire |
| | The Emperor Justinian attempted to re-conquer many of the lands that had been lost to the Germanic tribes. | | | The empire was further challenged by migrations of Slavic peoples and by the expansion of Islam. | | | The confrontation between the Byzantine Empire and various Islamic societies dominated the history of this period. |
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| | Yet there were also significant points of continuity: the legal and political structure remained largely the same, the economy and the military were largely the same. | | | Certainly there were significant changes: Christians come to play a more important and more public role in the life of the empire; Christian concerns come to dominate public discourse; the capital was moved from Rome to Constantinople (Byzantium). | | | The reign of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, is often taken to mark the beginning of a new period in the history of the Roman Empire. |
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| | Eastern Roman Empire Seizes Sicily |
| | The invading army, under the leadership of Belisarius, found the Sicilians themselves receptive to the expulsion of the Ostrogoths. | | | As the first step in his campaign to expel the Ostrogoths from Italy and regain the Italian peninsula for the Eastern Roman [Byzantine] Empire, the new Byzantine Emperor Justinian from his capital in Constantinople dispatched a mercenary army to invade Sicily in 535. | | | The new foreign power was to remain in control of Sicily until the arrival of the Saracens almost 300 years later. |
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| | The Empire Strikes Back |
| | In 527 Justinian became Emperor of the Eastern Roman [Byzantine] Empire, which had its capital at Constantinople. | | | In a five year campaign, Belisarius moved his forces northward through Naples and Rome, finally capturing the Ostrogoth king at Ravenna and once again bringing all of Italy under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire. | | | Despite serious ongoing war with Persia on his eastern front, Justinian resolved to wrest the Italian peninsula from the usurping Goths.[Location map to be added here. |
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| | > Eastern Roman Empire abcworld.net |
| | See What all the Hype is About and Meet Your Match Now. | | | We don't have an article called "Eastern roman empire" |
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