One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into ...

The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and ...

They were all bound together to a greater or lesser extent by the bonds of faithfulness to the Byzantine Church and Empire. Furthermore, by this time the Eastern European alliance had attained an ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed five gold coins dating to the time of the emperor Justinian the Great (ruled from A.D. 527 to 565). Although it is not unusual to discover coins during ...

As many as 12 four-horse teams raced one another seven times around the confines of the greatest arenas—the ... popular in the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire, which had its capital at ...

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

One of the greatest empires in history ... late 13th century by launching raids against the weakening Christian Byzantine Empire. Around 1299, he declared himself supreme leader of Asia Minor ...