Although historians call it the Byzantine Empire, the people living there at the time were still considered Romans and the empire was still called the Roman Empire. When the Barbarians sacked the city of Rome in 410, Constantinople became the seat of the Roman Empire for the next 1000 years.
As he was a Christian Ruler, he decided to convert the entire empire's religion to Christianity for the first time. We begin in the year 330 AD, when Constantine, an emperor from the Constantinian Dynasty, moved the capital city of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium, renaming it Constantinople. People living in Greece and Turkey will tell you that the Empire continued to exist there, as the Byzantine Empire. If you have ever learned about the Roman Empire at Primary School, you were probably told the empire fell in 476 AD. John from Alpha Club has been studying the Roman Empire at school and he's written an essay covering some of what he has learned.
Posted: 16th September 2021 The Byzantine Empire
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