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Constantinople was founded by Constantine
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Fall of the Western Roman Empire in the dismissal of the last Emperor Romulus Augustus at the hands of Odoacer, king of the Heruli. The date is conventionally taken as the end of antiquity and beginning of the Middle Ages
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The most powerful women in Byzantine history, rose from deep poverty
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Justinian's reign begins. He reconquers parts of the fallen Western Empire (Africa and Italy, Spain). Justinian is the last emperor to use the title "Caesar".
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The church was destroyed twice, one of those times was during the revolution in January nika 532, in February of that same year Justinian ordered the construction of a new church.
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It took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in 532. It was the most violent riot in the history of Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed
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Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the Vandals and the Ostrogoths.
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It was a pandemic that afflicted the Byzantine Empire, including its capital Constantinople. The most commonly accepted cause of the pandemic has been bubonic plague. The outbreak in Constantinople was thought to have been carried to the city by infected rats on the grain boats arriving from Egypt.
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Was the last emperor.
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He was son of Heraclius the Elder. He is known for changing the language to Greek. He lost against the Muslims and Persians.
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Persians and Avars attacked Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire resisted the attack but began to decline
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Loss of Egypt, Syria and Palestine against the Arabs. In the following decades take most of North Africa and later conquer Sicily
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The First Crusade 1095-1099
The First Crusade was proclaimed at Council of Clermont.
The Second Crusade 1147-1149
The Third Crusade 1189-1191
The Fourth Crusade 1202 - 1204
Fourth Crusade is assembled at Venice.
Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople. The Latin Empire of Constantinople is formed as well as many Byzantine successor states. The capture of Constantinople in 1204 was a blow from which the Byzantines never fully recovered. -
The Great Schism was the split between Church in Rome and the Church in Constantinople, they excommunicated each other.
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The successor state of Nicaea recaptures Constantinople and restores the Byzantine Empire.
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Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans was the end of the Byzantine Empire.
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Following the death of Emperor Theodosius in 395 the Roman Empire was divided into two parts. But while the Western Empire then succumbed to the attacks of the barbarians, the Eastern Empire survived
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The Justinian Code is a collection of imperial constitutions promulgated by the Emperor Justinian. Tuvos two versions, the first on April 7, 529, and the second on 17 November 534
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Lombards invade Italy, eventually taking Northern Italy from the Byzantines, led by King Alboin
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A large Muslim force besieged Constantinople by land and sea, after a big war, the byzantines regains control of Asia Minor from the Muslims
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Charlemagne, king of the Franks, is crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III in Rome.
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Was the only successful invasion by the Russians, who then fled to plunder Constantinople
