Byzantium and Western Roman Empire

By johntheodore
  • 324

    Byzantine Empire

    Roman Emperor of East defeated by Roman Emperor of the West, Constantine (first Christian emperor); Byzantium renamed Constantinople & built up by Constantine.
  • 476

    Constantinople considered capital of Byzantine Empire after Rome falls

  • Period: 476 to

    Byzantine Empire

  • Byzantium a New Center

    Byzantium named by Roman Emperor Diocletian as a new center of Roman
    Empire with power split between Rome (West) and Byzantium (East)
  • Period: to 475

    Byzantium and Western Roman Empire