Known today as the “Byzantine” Empire by historians, it was the eastern half of the original Roman Empire, with it’s capital at Constantinople. After the West fell in 476 CE, the East lived on, eventually reconquering large parts of the former West, before losing all of it’s gains to the Germanic peoples in Europe, and the Arab invasions in the south and eastern parts. It was reduced to the territory of modern Greece and Turkey for the duration of it’s existence in the Middle Ages. The Fall of Constantinople to the Turks (and the subsequent collapse of the Empire) in 1453 is considered the end of the Middles Ages and the beginning of the modern era.
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