What are some facts about the Byzantium or Constantinople?in 330 A.D-1453 A.D?

Answer 1

The topic is huge.
You can only get a brief description!
Byzantine Empire (properly the Eastern Roman Empire!) was an empire based on the old Greek world of the eastern Mediterranean!
(Byzantine Empire (Greek: Βασίλειον τών Ρωμαίων) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople.)
During most of its history it was known to its Western contemporaries as "The Empire of the Greeks". Today most scholars acknowledge that properly speaking, the "Medieval Greek (Byzantine) Empire" was the continuation of the Hellenistic World, and its study is often grouped under “Hellenology”.
The empire did not start as a Greek empire though! As greatly described by Helene Ahrweiler, (Les Europeens, pp.150, Herman (Paris), 2000.): "Byzantium may be defined as a multi-ethnic empire that emerged as a Christian empire, soon comprised the Hellenized empire of the East and ended its thousand-year history, in 1453, as a Greek Orthodox state: An empire that became a nation, almost by the modern meaning of the word"
The Byzantine Greeks (the Greeks, or the Hellenized citizens only) identified themselves as Romans (Ρωμαίοι - Romaioi) and by the 7th century had already become a synonym for a "Hellene" (Έλλην, Greek) and more than ever before were developing a national consciousness as residents of Ρωμανία (Rōmania, as the Byzantine state and its world were called). This nationalist awareness is reflected in literature, particularly in the acritic songs, where frontiersmen (Ακρίτες) are praised for defending their country against invaders, of which the most famous is the heroic or epic poem Digenis Akritas.
Byzantines were generally conscious of their continuity with ancient Greeks and Romans. Even though the ancient Greeks were not Christians, the Byzantine intellectuals regarded them as their ancestors, and referring to their Medieval Greek language as "Hellenic". In fact, the Byzantines did not only refer to themselves as Rōmaioi in order to retain both their Roman citizenship and their ancient Hellenic (Greek) heritage. A common substitute for the term "Hellene" (originally with pagan connotations) other than Rōmaios was the term Graikos (Γραίκος). Many think that it was Emperor Heraclius who fully Hellenized the Empire by making Greek the official language, but the empire turned Greek in a later period!
Although the royal dynasties were Greek (or half Greek), the upper aristocracy was Greek and the upper military was Greek too, still the empire controlled non Greek regions and it held a multiethnic character.
The turn point was the 4th crusade! After the suck of Constantinople from the crusaders and the wars that follow the empire was reduced only in the Greek regions of the Asia Minor and in the Greek mainland! That had as a result the complete turn of the empire; from a Greek dominate multi Nation Empire to a Greek empire. That’s why the last emperor of Byzantium, his royal Majesty Emperor Kostantinos Palaiologos signed as emperor of the Greeks!
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Answer 2

It is a very general question.You can search here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_empire

Someone above said that the name of Constantinopole right now is Instabul.In case you don't know,Greek people keep calling that city with the old name.
In the byzantine years that city was so great that greek people and not only them used to call Constantinopole,using the name Poli,which means City.Everyone could understand in which city someone was reffering.Besides Constantinopole comes from the two words "Constantinos" (the name of the king,up to now is a very common greek name) and "poli" which means city as we said before.
The funny is that the name Instabul that Turks want to use is greek too,but they just don't know it.
In greek language when someone wants to say :"I am going to the City" says: "Pigaino is tin poli".Taking the phrase "is tin poli" (meaning "to the City") Turks could pronounce it:"istimpol".
That is how the name Istambul came out.In Greece people laugh when they hear someone calling Constantinopole like that because it is totally greek and the other don't know.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Both were very violent periods but you left out Istanbul, when the Muslim infiltrated with a new form of religion and literallly ruined the Christian faith in that region, that was instilled by Constantine.
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Answer 5

what a bizarre question

well for starters it's istanbul now, that's a fact that several bands sing about. constantine was the first roman emperor to recognise christiantiy, byzantium was an important arena for early christian art and architecture.