The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was 查看更多內容

Early history
By the third century AD, the Roman army had conquered many territories covering the Mediterranean region and coastal regions in 查看更多內容

Byzantine science played an important and crucial role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world and to Renaissance Italy. … 查看更多內容

Modern historians generally regard the term "Byzantine" as a label of the later years of the Roman Empire from 1557 onwards, 104 years after the empire's collapse, when the German historian Hieronymus Wolf published his work Corpus Historiæ … 查看更多內容

As established by the Hellenistic political systems, the monarch was the sole and absolute ruler, and his power was regarded as having divine origin. From Justinian I on, … 查看更多內容

Religion
The Byzantine Empire was a theocracy, said to be ruled by God working through the emperor. … 查看更多內容

The Byzantine economy was among the most advanced in Europe and the Mediterranean for many centuries. Europe, in particular, could not match Byzantine economic strength until late in the Middle Ages. Constantinople operated as a prime hub in a trading … 查看更多內容