Byzantine Empire : Eastern counterpart & successor to the Roman Empire of the West, also called the Eastern Empire & the East Roman Empire. It was named after Byzantium, which Emperor Constantine I rebuilt (AD 330) as Constantinople (present Istanbul) & made the capital of the entire Roman Empire.
... end, first, imperfectly and temporarily by the Macedonian overrule, then, by a strange enough development, through the evolution of the Page 306 Eastern Roman world into a Greek and Byzantine Empire, and it has again revived in modern Greece. And we have seen in our own day Germany, constantly disunited since ancient times, develop at last to portentous issues its innate sense of oneness ...
... Greece, then the first and milder although sufficiently serious break came with the Roman conquest; the second catastrophic change was wrought by the Goths and Vandals which was stabilised in the Byzantine Empire and the third avatar appeared with the Turkish regime. At the present time, she is acquiring another life and body. Indeed, viewed from this angle, the whole conscious personality of Europe ...
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