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Constantine I founded the city of constanople which it the capital city of the Byzantine empire. He named the city Constantinople after himself.
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The Nika riots took place over the course of a week they were the most violent riots in the history of Constantinople.
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Belisaruis was a general that commanded a attack against the vandal kingdom. He went on his expedition to retake the former western Roman Empire that the vandals had taken less than a century prior to the expedition.
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In 532 after the destruction of the second basilica emperor Justinian I decided to build a third but this one he wanted bigger and better than the other two so he had columns and other marbles brought from around the empire.
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In 1000 general nikeporos xiphias took the Bulgarian capital of great preslav. Then in 1001 basil was able to regain control of vodena, verrhoia, and servia.
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The great schism was the break up of what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Thier break up happened because the two side didn't agree on several things. For example one side wanted to use leavened bread in the church and the other wanted to use unleavened bread.
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The fourth crusade was a European quest ordered by pope innocent III that was intended to conquer Jerusalem but instead resulted in a conqure of the city of Constantinople by the crusaders. This happened because alexios angelos wanted to restore his father as emperor so he promised the crusaders financial and military support if they did it for him.
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The fall of Constantinople was official after a 53 day attack from an army of the Ottoman Empire lead by mehmed the conqueror. This capture of condtantinople and two other Byzantine territories was the end of the Byzantine empire.
