Byzantine History

The aim of this study is to reflect the main lines of the empire, whose capital was Byzantium. It should be noted that there is no significant break between Roman and Byzantine dates. This empire can be called the "Byzantine Empire" from the moment when the emperor abandoned Rome, whose collapse was inevitable, and moved the capital to Constantinople, which thus became the administrative and political center of the empire. In fact, the reign of Constantine, in which a pagan state transformed into a Christian state and Rome lost its supremacy to Constantinople, is the beginning of Byzantine history. Byzantium created a Christian civilization from a pagan civilization that had collapsed and lacked the power to renew itself. Turks, Arabs, and Slavic peoples will all feel the effects of this civilization deeply.

Byzantine History has not been completely free from the determinations between ignorance and prejudice. Byzantium's misfortune was that it had not great historians like Thucydides or Tacitus, but chroniclers whose Greek was often difficult to understand. In this book, it is shown that a state located between the borders of West and East and able to withstand blows from both sides for eleven centuries deserves more than indifference or disdain.



Number of Pages: 135

Year of Printing: 2004


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 135

First Print Year: 2004

Language Turkish