There were many sorts of groups. You had Italians,Greeks,Muslims,Chinese,Middle Eastern,Turkish,Indian, to name a few. Since the Byzantine Empire was so vast, this is the reason for so many different ethnic and religion groups.
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The British Empire was the largest empire in history.
The Ottomans destroyed the last part of the Byzantine Empire. (Constantinople)
the assyrian empire and yhe sumerian empire
The Eastern Empire and Western Empire split when Rome was sort-of conquered. Most of the wealth was on the Eastern Empire and so the Germanic Peoples were attracted to the empty, wealthy Western side. The soldiers also had to retreat to the Eastern Empire because they had to protect Italy from being invaded from an attacking group of peoples.
There have been may empires throughout history. A few of them are: the Persian empire, the Parthian empire, the Roman empire, the Byzantine empire, the Mogul empire, the Ottoman empire, the Chinese empire with its various dynasties, the Egyptian empire, the Babylonian empire, the British empire, in other words, any group of people who expanded their territory and ruled under their own laws was an empire.