Meaning & use
Byzantine Empire
The Eastern Roman Empire that continued after the fall of Rome, centered on Constantinople, lasting from the fourth century until 1453.
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The Byzantine Empire preserved much of Greek and Roman learning for nearly a thousand years.
Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottomans in 1453.
A note on using this word
Lowercase byzantine is also used as an adjective for something excessively complicated, a sense drawn from the empire's complex bureaucracy.
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Eastern Roman Empire
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