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∙ 9y agoIt may not have lived compeltely up to Roman civilization but it was as close as you can get
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Justinian expanded the Byzantine Empire through means of war and the conquering other lands. The additions of the former Roman provinces of Italia, Baetica, and Africa Proconsularis expanded the Byzantine Empire to it's largest point in history.
The difference between Judaism and Byzantine is whereas Judaism is a Christian sect, Byzantine is not.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire named after its fall is mostly the Ottoman Empire. Edit: The area of the former empire is still known in Turkish and other oriental languages as Rum (pronounced room). Thus the famous writer Jalaludin Rumi is named after the area in modern Turkey where he lived for most of his life (born in what is now Afghanistan).
Half of the Former Byzantine Empire was under Moslem control, so there were numerous cities and towns that the Byzantines wanted to liberate from the Moslems. They specifically mention Jerusalem, but that was only to gain support for such a campaign from Western Europe.
The Eastern Empire.
Constantinopole was the former capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine
Byzantine
Justinian expanded the Byzantine Empire through means of war and the conquering other lands. The additions of the former Roman provinces of Italia, Baetica, and Africa Proconsularis expanded the Byzantine Empire to it's largest point in history.
Justinian was a Byzantine Emperor, considered its greatest, and he brought the empire near to the former heights of the old Roman Empire.
A strong military
The difference between Judaism and Byzantine is whereas Judaism is a Christian sect, Byzantine is not.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire named after its fall is mostly the Ottoman Empire. Edit: The area of the former empire is still known in Turkish and other oriental languages as Rum (pronounced room). Thus the famous writer Jalaludin Rumi is named after the area in modern Turkey where he lived for most of his life (born in what is now Afghanistan).
Half of the Former Byzantine Empire was under Moslem control, so there were numerous cities and towns that the Byzantines wanted to liberate from the Moslems. They specifically mention Jerusalem, but that was only to gain support for such a campaign from Western Europe.
One aspect of the "old Roman Empire" that was carried on to the new eastern Roman empire, which became the Byzantine Empire was the standard of written laws. This was an important feature of the old Roman republic and later when the republic was a shell of its former self. Generally referred to as the Roman Empire, there were still written laws.The governing office of Emperor also was carried on.
Syrna is a city. Turkey was formerly a mix of hundreds of city-states and territories, originally independent, and then taken over by the Roman Empire, and when that split up, the Byzantine Empire.