Byzantine Empire Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
About Byzantine Empire
—attributed to emperor Justinian II Rhinotmetus ("the slit-nosed") who reigned from 685 to 695 and again from 705 to 711 In 330, the Roman emperor Constantine I moved his seat east to Byzantium, renaming itKōnstantinoupolis, "Constantine's city". In 395, Theodosius I officially divided the empire into two between his sons: the Western Roman Empire based in Rome and the Eastern Roman Empire with its seat in Constantinople. At its time, the Byzantine Empire was known as theEast Roman EmpireorRomania, a name surviving in today'sRomania, and the inhabitants never saw themselves anything other than Romans proper — the term "Byzantine" (derived from Byzantium, the oldest name of Constantinople/Istanbul) was coined after the fall of the empire, in 1557, by German scholar Hieronymus Wolf to distin
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