At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the fall of the West, Byzantine coins were mainly comprised of ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Through the past two centuries, fabled Byzantium was reduced to little more ...

the center of which was Constantinople, Eastern Europe lying in the periphery of its domain.” This very ability to create a national and stable unity should interest us most of all. Historians know ...

ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that Survived ... s History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford, 1997). The book includes fifteen well-executed and detailed maps, and numerous monochrome ...