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Outline of the Byzantine Empire

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Byzantine Empire:

Byzantine Empire (or Byzantium) – the Constantinople-centred Roman Empire of the Middle Ages. It is also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, primarily in the context of Late Antiquity, while the Roman Empire was still administered with separate eastern and western political centres. In its own time, there was no such thing as "the Byzantine Empire," there was just the ongoing Roman Empire; "Byzantine Empire" is a scholarly term of convenience to differentiate the empire from its earlier existence during classical antiquity before the western half collapsed (see decline of the Roman Empire). Its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire ({{langx|grc|Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων}}, Basileia Rhōmaiōn;{{harvnb|Kazhdan|Epstein|1985|p=1}}. {{langx|la|Imperium Romanum}}) or Romania ({{lang|grc|Ῥωμανία}}).{{sfnm|1a1=Millar|1y=2006|1pp=2, 15|2a1=James|2y=2010|2p=5|3a1=Freeman|3y=1999|3pp=431, 435–437, 459–462|4a1=Baynes|4a2=Moss|4y=1948|4p=xx|5a1=Ostrogorsky|5y=1969|5p=27|6a1=Kaldellis|6y=2007|6pp=2–3|7a1=Kazhdan|7a2=Constable|7y=1982|7p=12|8a1=Norwich|8y=1998|8p=383}} After the Western Roman Empire fragmented and collapsed in the 5th century, the eastern half continued to thrive, existing for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During much of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe.

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Geography of the Byzantine Empire

= Regions of the Byzantine Empire =

== Administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire ==

=== Provinces of the Byzantine Empire ===

=== Themes of the Byzantine Empire ===

=== Cities of the Byzantine Empire ===

== Affiliated polities ==

= Demography of the Byzantine Empire =

Government and politics of the Byzantine Empire

= Political institutions of the Byzantine Empire =

Political institutions of the Byzantine Empire

= Byzantine law =

Byzantine law

= Military of the Byzantine Empire =

Military of the Byzantine Empire

== Byzantine armed forces ==

== Military conflicts ==

General history of the Byzantine Empire

History of the Byzantine Empire

= Military history of the Byzantine Empire =

Works on Byzantine history

= Byzantine historiography and scholars =

== 18th century ==

== 19th century ==

== 20th century ==

Culture of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine culture

= Religion in the Byzantine Empire =

= Byzantine language =

Byzantine economy

Byzantine education

Byzantine science and technology

See also

{{portal|Byzantine Empire}}

References

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Sources

  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Baynes|editor1-first=Norman Hepburn|editor2-last=Moss|editor2-first=Henry St. Lawrence Beaufort|title=Byzantium: An Introduction to East Roman Civilization|url=https://archive.org/details/byzantiumintrodu00baynrich|url-access=registration|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1948}}
  • {{cite book|last=Freeman|first=Charles|title=The Greek Achievement – The Foundation of the Western World|location=New York|publisher=Penguin|year=1999|isbn=0-670-88515-0|url=https://archive.org/details/greekachievement0000free}}
  • {{cite book|last=James|first=Liz|title=A Companion to Byzantium|location=Chichester|publisher=John Wiley|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4051-2654-0}}
  • {{cite book|last=Kaldellis|first=Anthony|title=Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-87688-9}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Kazhdan|first1=Alexander Petrovich|last2=Constable|first2=Giles|title=People and Power in Byzantium: An Introduction to Modern Byzantine Studies|location=Washington, DC|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks|year=1982|isbn=0-88402-103-3}}
  • {{cite book | last1=Kazhdan | first1=A. P. | last2=Epstein | first2=Ann Wharton | title=Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | location=Berkeley and Los Angeles | publisher=University of California Press | year=1985 | isbn=0-520-05129-7 | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qlU37xo9LeUC}}
  • {{cite book|last=Millar|first=Fergus|title=A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450)|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles|publisher=University of California Press|year=2006|isbn=0-520-24703-5|url=https://archive.org/details/greekromanempire00ferg}}
  • {{cite book|last=Norwich|first=John Julius|title=A Short History of Byzantium|location=Ringwood, Vic.|publisher=Penguin|year=1998|isbn=978-0-14-025960-5}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Ostrogorsky |first=George |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbyzanti00ostr |title=History of the Byzantine State |publisher=Rutgers University Press |date=1969 |isbn=978-0-8135-1198-6 |location=New Brunswick |author-link=George Alexandrovič Ostrogorsky |url-access=registration }}

External links

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; Byzantine studies, resources and bibliography

  • Adena, L. "[http://cliojournal.wikispaces.com/The+Enduring+Legacy+of+Byzantium The Enduring Legacy of Byzantium] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413122722/http://cliojournal.wikispaces.com/The+Enduring+Legacy+of+Byzantium |date=2020-04-13 }}", Clio History Journal, 2008.
  • Ciesniewski, C. "[http://cliojournal.wikispaces.com/The+Byzantine+Achievement The Byzantine Achievement]", Clio History Journal, 2006.
  • Fox, Clinton R. [http://www.romanity.org/htm/fox.01.en.what_if_anything_is_a_byzantine.01.htm What, If Anything, Is a Byzantine? (Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors)]
  • {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20101127205009/http://www.third-millennium-library.com/MedievalHistory/Cambridge/IV/Eastern-Door.html The Cambridge Medieval History (IV) The Eastern Roman Empire (717–1453)]}}.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080410123427/http://www.doaks.org/Byzantine.html Byzantine studies homepage] at Dumbarton Oaks. Includes links to numerous electronic texts.
  • [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/ Byzantium: Byzantine studies on the Internet]. Links to various online resources.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20111107172532/http://homepage.mac.com/paulstephenson/trans.html Translations from Byzantine Sources: The Imperial Centuries, c. 700–1204]. Online sourcebook.
  • [http://www.deremilitari.org/ De Re Militari]. Resources for medieval history, including numerous translated sources on the Byzantine wars.
  • [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1c.html Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantium]. Numerous primary sources on Byzantine history.
  • [http://www.univie.ac.at/byzantine/ Bibliography on Byzantine Material Culture and Daily Life]. Hosted by the University of Vienna; in English.
  • [http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/greek-resources-constantinople.asp Constantinople Home Page]. Links to texts, images and videos on Byzantium.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20160816053828/http://graal.org.ua/en/theodoro-principality Byzantium in Crimea: Political History, Art and Culture].
  • [http://www.oeaw.ac.at/byzanz/ Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (with further resources and a repository with papers on various aspects of the Byzantine Empire)]

; Miscellaneous

  • {{In Our Time|Byzantine Empire|p00547j9|Byzantine_Empire}}
  • [http://www.roman-emperors.org/ De Imperatoribus Romanis]. Scholarly biographies of many Byzantine emperors.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120620033620/http://rutube.ru/tracks/639717.html?v=8a96fcfe7400898167971e4d057e86a2 The Fall of the Empire. Byzantine Lesson (2007). (Russian: Гибель империи. Византийский урок)] A film explaining the political and economical reasons for the fall of the Empire, filmed by the Russian Orthodox Church.
  • [http://www.anders.com/lectures/lars_brownworth/12_byzantine_rulers/ 12 Byzantine Rulers] by Lars Brownworth of The Stony Brook School; audio lectures. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/education/31education.html NYTimes review].
  • [http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~s285238/Roman/RomanEmpire.html 18 centuries of Roman Empire by Howard Wiseman] (Maps of the Roman/Byzantine Empire throughout its lifetime)

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