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	Byzantine Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Byzantine Empire (native Greek name: Βασιλεία τῶν Ρωμαίων - Basileia tōn Romaiōn) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople.
		The Eastern Roman Empire was largely spared the difficulties of the west in the 3rd and 4th centuries (see Crisis of the Third Century) in part because urban culture was better established there and the initial invasions were attracted to the wealth of Rome.
		The Hunnic Empire collapsed and Constantinople was free from the menace of Attila.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Byzantine_Empire (12014 words)

	byzantine empire - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople.
		The Eastern Empire was largely spared the difficulties of the west in the 3rd and 4th centuries (see Crisis of the Third Century), in part because urban culture was better established there and the initial invasions were attracted to the wealth of Rome.
		The empire was by now noticeably different in religion from the former imperial lands in western Europe, although the southern Byzantine provinces differed significantly from the north in culture and practiced Monophysite (rather than Chalcedonian Orthodox) Christianity.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Byzantine-Empire (3467 words)

	Royalty.nu - Eastern Roman Empire - The Byzantine Empire - Emperors of Byzantium
		Byzantine Court Culture From 829 to 1204 edited by Henry MacGuire.
		Theodosius: The Empire at Bay by Stephen Williams and Gerald Friell.
		Argues that the Crusades began in the seventh century with the conquest by the Persians of the Byzantine Empire.
	www.royalty.nu /history/empires/Byzantine/index.html (2147 words)

	Byzantine Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the eastern section of the Roman Empire with its capital at Constantinople (modern Istanbul) which remained in existence after the of Rome in the 5th century.
		Although the empire was not "Byzantine" under Constantine Christianity would become one the defining characteristics of the Byzantine Empire opposed to the pagan Roman Empire.
		The Eastern Empire was largely spared the of the west in the 3rd and 4th centuries (see Crisis of the Third Century) in part because urban culture was established there and the initial invasions were to the wealth of Rome.
	www.freeglossary.com /Byzantine_Empire (2436 words)

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		The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was last seen entering deep into the fighting of an overwhelmingly outnumbered civilian army, against the invading Ottomans on the ramparts of Constantinople.
		The idea of the Russian Empire as the new, Third Rome was kept alive until its demise in 1917, with the Russian revolution.
		Technically, the Byzantine Empire lived on in the city of Monemvasia in the Morea, until 1471, when the last "Despot" of the Morea, Demetrius Palaeologus, now living in Rome under the protection of the Pope, sold it to the latter for cash.
	www.avoo.com /wiki/Byzantine_Empire (12447 words)

	Byzantine Empire
		Empire dominating Anatolia and southeastern parts of Europe from 395 until 1453, although the process of making it an independent empire started in 330.
		The name Byzantine Empire is an academic term, used to differentiate this empire from the former Roman one.
		The empire saw a period of cultural, territorial and economic advances in the 10th and 11th centuries.
	i-cias.com /e.o/byz_empire.htm (658 words)

	Byzantine Empire 610-1095 by Sanderson Beck
		Both the Persian and Byzantine empires had been weakened by their war; having suffered persecution from Byzantine orthodoxy, the Monophysites and the Persian Magians were usually willing to pay tribute for their religious freedom under the Muslims or convert, the third choice being to fight.
		Irene courted popularity temporarily by greatly reducing taxes; but the fiscal irresponsibility resulted in her being overthrown in 802 by the finance minister Nicephorus, who was proclaimed Emperor; Irene was exiled and died the next year.
		Bulgaria was annexed by the Byzantine empire; Boris II was taken to Constantinople as a prisoner; and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was terminated.
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	The Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This covers the various phases of the Roman Empire: the original, the Western, the Eastern (Byzantine), and the Holy Roman Empire.
		It is also worth noting, for it is a fact neglected even by some professional historians, that the Byzantine Empire retook the City of Rome from the Ostrogoths in 553, and held it for the next 200 years.
		The Western division of the Empire, encompassing Rome itself together with Italy, Gaul, Britain, Iberia, and northwestern Africa, was utterly unable to maintain itself in the face of overwhelming barbarian invasion/migration.
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