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Wikipedia: The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire, was the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople, and ruled by Byzantine emperors. It was called the Roman Empire, and also as Romania, by its inhabitants and its neighbours. As the distinction between "Roman Empire" and "Byzantine Empire" is purely a modern convention, it is not possible to assign a date of separation, but an important point is the Emperor Constantine I's transfer in 324 of the capital from Nicomedia to Byzantium on the Bosphorus, which became Constantinople.
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![[The Eastern Roman Empire in 500 AD.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/RomanEmpire500AD_s.jpg "The Eastern Roman Empire in 500 AD.")
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![[The Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Rûm before the Crusades]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Byzantiumforecrusades_s.jpg "The Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Rûm before the Crusades")
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![[The siege of Constantinople in 1453 according to a fifteenth century French miniature]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Constantinople_1453_s.jpg "The siege of Constantinople in 1453 according to a fifteenth century French miniature")
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