Byzantium

Byzantium
   The eastern Roman Empire, ruled from Constantinople from 330-1453; i.e., from the time Constantine I the Great (q.v.) dedicated his new imperial capital Constantinople (formerly called Byzantion [qq.v.]) to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottomans (q.v.). The term "Byzantium" is a creation of Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580), librarian and secretary to the Fuggers in Augsburg, who published the works of Zonaras and Niketas Choniates (qq.v.). After 330, the Roman Empire evolved into a multi-ethnic, Christian, Greek-speaking state, one whose orientation after the sixth century was progressively eastward-looking. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of the empire continued to refer to themselves as Romans (Romaioi), and their state as Romania.

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