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Emperor Constantine I established Constantinople in 330. The Byzantines considered themselves Romans, but major differences between them and the Romans had always kept them separate, and distant from eachother.
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The Nika Revolt was a riot that took place in early medieval Constantinople, in the Eastern Roman Empire. It threatened the life and reign of Emperor Justinian.
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Between the times of 533-545, General Belisarius faught for Justinian in a fight for land in Italy and Africa. He won many important battles and gained great respect, but this respect was short-lived due to political unrest.
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Hagia Sophia, the church dedicated to the "Holy Wisdom" which was rebuilt by Emperor Justinian in 537, is a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica, later an imperial mosque, and is now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey
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The Byzantine army or Eastern Roman army was the primary military body of the Byzantine armed forces, serving alongside the Byzantine navy, and the byzantine army was the main group of people who started the campaigns.
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Basil II was constantly fighting to gain power along side his co-emperor brother Constantine. Emperor Basil II invaded Bulgaria and had some ineffective strategies, but quickly learned from his past failures, and mistakes and moved forward. He died in 1025 and the war between Bulgaria and Byzantines ended four years later with the Byzantines on top.
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The Great Schism of 1054, led to the development of the modern Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, which caused the break of communion between the two, and which has lasted since the 11th century.
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Emperor Alexios I reached out to Pope Urban II for assistance during the Seljuq Turkish invation he was dealing with. This quickly turned into an objective to recapture Jeruselum, the Holy Land, and to free Eastern Christians from Muslum rule. This goal bacome known as the Crusades.
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The Fourth Crusade, was originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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On May 29, 1453 CE, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks and the Byzantine Empire came to an end. Constantinople was transformed into the Islamic city of Istanbul. The fall of the empire marked the end of the Roman Empire which had lasted nearly 1,500 years.
