The History of the Byzantine Empire : Every Month

This video shows the history of the Byzantine empire in a much more complete way, as it goes every month. To quickly sum up, the empire this video is about was neither called “Byzantine“ nor “Eastern Roman“, but simply “Roman/Romaioi“ but its contemporaries. “Byzantine empire“ is a made up term that appeared in the course of the 16th century to refer to that empire which once ruled Constantinople before the Ottoman takeover. Although the empire’s start date is subject to controversies, my video goes from year 395 when the empire got divided into two different entites and focuses on the Eastern part only and ends in 1461, when the last “Byzantine“ place surrendered to the Turks. From emperor Arcadius to basileus Constantine XI Palaiologos, passing throughout Justinian, Heraclius, Basil II & Alexios I Komnenos, see the fate of this once mighty empire and the glory, magnificence, prestige, darkness, violence and difficulties it went through. 00:00 - Theodosians 04:15 - Leonids 07:07 - Justinians 11:03 - Non-