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The emperor founded the capital officially
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Most violent riot in Canstantinople history. Tens of thousands of people were killed and half of the city was burned down.
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He first enlisted in the army under the Byzantine Emperor Justin I and, upon that emperor’s death, Justinian I awarded Belisarius full command of the army.
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The build of Hagia Sophia was officially completed
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Many different rulers throughout the 128 year span. The borders expanded and many overlaid as more and more expanded over those years.
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Basil II led a military on several conquests in Bulgaria and then re established control over the Balkan Peninsula.
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East-West schism. between the Eastern and western churches.
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The conflict between the Seljuk lurks and the Byzantines disrupted travel to the holy land.
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The Fourth Crusade was a Western European armed expedition originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem.
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The Venetian Nicolò Barbaro recorded the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. People who saw it describes the progressive stranglehold devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city.
