Byzantine Empire

Details

Instance of

empire, historical country, historical period, failed state, administrative territorial entity, culture

Inception

17 January 395, 330, 286, 285

Part of

Roman Empire, Rome in the Middle Ages

Follows

Ancient Rome, Low Roman Empire, Eastern Roman Empire

Followed by

Umayyad Caliphate, Rashidun Caliphate, Ottoman Empire, Empire of Trebizond, Emirate of Crete

Located in

Roman Empire

Country

Roman Empire

Continent

Europe, Africa, Asia

Capital

Constantinople

Said to be the same as

Fúlǐn, Roman Empire

Religion

Eastern Orthodoxy

Population

17000000

basic form of government

absolute monarchy, Dominate

category for maps or plans

Category:Maps of the Byzantine Empire

category for people born here

Q8049025

category for people buried here

Q107491069

category for people who died here

Category:Deaths in the Byzantine Empire

category of associated people

Category:Byzantine people

culture

Roman civilization, Byzantine culture

currency

solidus, Byzantine coinage, miliaresion, hyperpyron, Histamenon, Stavraton

demonym

bizánci, Byzantin, Byzantine, bizantí, bizantina, bizantino, bizantina, Bizancimperiano, romà d'Orient, romana d'Orient, ромеи, بيزنطي

described by source

The Catholic Encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Old Book of Tang, New Book of Tang, History of Song, History of Ming, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The New Student's Reference Work, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

different from

Greater Greece

dissolved, abolished or demolished date

29 May 1453

economy of topic

economy of the Byzantine Empire

has works in the collection

Art Institute of Chicago

head of state

Byzantine emperor

history of topic

history of the Byzantine Empire

language used

Latin, medieval Greek, Koine Greek

named after

Constantinople

native label

Imperium Romanum, Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων, Romania, Ῥωμανία

official language

medieval Latin, medieval Greek

official religion

Eastern Orthodoxy

owner of

Saint Hilarion Castle, Castello Normanno, Buffavento Castle

partially coincident with

Eastern Roman Empire

participant in

Ottoman Wars in Europe, Arab–Byzantine wars, Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars, Byzantine–Sassanian Wars, Byzantine–Norman Wars, Byzantine–Lombard Wars, Crusades, Rus'–Byzantine wars, Siege of Constantinople, Siege of Tbilisi, Siege of Alexandria, Veneto-Byzantine War

replaced by

Emirate of Crete, Ottoman Empire, Duchy of Brescia, Maona of Chios and Phocaea, Latin Empire

replaces

Roman Empire, Western Roman Empire, Latin Empire, An Ibéir Shasainid

shares border with

Western Roman Empire

studied by

Byzantine studies

topic has template

Template:Byzantine Empire topics, Template:Byzantine Empire

topic's main category

Category:Byzantine Empire

topic's main Wikimedia portal

Portal:Byzantine Empire

Wikimedia outline

outline of the Byzantine Empire

Connected on Wikidata

Authority files