The Empire of the East: Three Books on the Byzantines
The eastern Roman empire was founded by Constantine the Great on May 11, A.D. 330. The empire fell on May 29, 1453, when the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II breached the walls of Constantinople. Pagan then Christian, Roman then Greek, the eastern empire endured for 1,123 years, bridging the…
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