HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Germany
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France
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Egypt
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Bulgaria
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: By 1000 AD, the Byzantine Empire had shrunk considerably. It included parts of southern Italy, Greece, present-day Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia and Asia Minor. It had lost all of its holdings in Africa, northern parts of Europe and the Middle East.
Detailed explanation-2: -Egypt became part of the East Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), which was now a Christian empire. AD 539 the Egyptian provinces were directly under the ‘praefectus praetorio per Orientem’.
Detailed explanation-3: -Where was the Byzantine Empire? At its greatest extent, the Byzantine Empire covered much of the land surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, including what is now Italy, Greece, and Turkey along with portions of North Africa and the Middle East.
Detailed explanation-4: -^ Between 1204 and 1261 there was an interregnum when the Latin Empire took control of Constantinople, causing the Byzantine Empire itself to be divided into the Empire of Nicaea, the Empire of Trebizond, and the Despotate of Epirus.