WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms and which finally fell to Ottoman Turkish onslaughts in 1453.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term “Byzantine” derives from Byzantium, an ancient Greek colony founded by a man named Byzas. Located on the European side of the Bosporus (the strait linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean), the site of Byzantium was ideally located to serve as a transit and trade point between Europe and Asia.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Eastern Roman Empire was also known as the Byzantine Empire or Byzantium. The Byzantines referred to themselves as ‘Romans’ and their capital as ‘New Rome’. The Byzantine Empire prevailed for another thousand years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE.