The Byzantium Empire was the longest lasting empire in the western world. It was inaugurated in 330 A.D. when Roman Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Byzantium ...
In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened Africa & Byzantium, its first Byzantine-focused exhibition in nearly 20 years. According to the museum’s press release, the show promises ...
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We’ve been calling Rome the wrong name
For a thousand years after 476, the empire in Constantinople still called itself Roman. The term “Byzantine Empire” was invented in the 16th century—long after the state had fallen. It wasn’t just a ...
Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine borderlands.
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