1. (n.)Byzantine Empire the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Empire in a.d. 476: became extinct after the fall of Constantinople, its capital, in 1453.
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1. (noun)Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire a continuation of the Roman Empire in the MiddleEast after its division in 395
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. byzantine empire called also the Eastern, the Lower, or the Greek Empire; dates from 395 A.D., when, by the death of Theodosius, the Roman empire was divided between his two sons, Arcadius and Honorius, the Eastern section falling to the share of the former, who established the seat of his government at Byzantium; the empire included Syria, Asia Minor, Pontus, Egypt in Africa, and Ancient Greece, and it lasted with varied fortune for ten centuries after the accession of Arcadius, tillConstantinople was taken by the Turks in 1453.
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