History of the Byzantine Empire

The history of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire from AD306-1453.

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[OtherRealmProductions]

It's amazing how long did they lasted, considering the amount of civil unrest and rebellions that the empire had threw out it's entire history.

[romainvicta]

Very good video! No one ever talks about what happens after the Romans reclaimed constantinople in 1261. They always say "while they did reclaim it, the empire was not the same and it would collapse in just 200 years" as if it was nothing to talk about. Thank you for discussing that time period!

[vangelisskia]

"Present your shield, swords, arrows, and spears to them, imagining that you are a hunting party after wild boars, so that the impious may learn that they are dealing not with dumb animals but with their lords and masters, THE DESCENDANTS OF THE GREEKS AND THE ROMANS."
George Sprantzes – The Fall of the Byzantine Empire 1453 primary source from the war.

Constantine Palaologus XI speaks before his officers and allies before the final siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed Bey

[cowlico]

I have actually been to the Hagia Sofia, it is impressive and the fact that after 1485 years it still stands!!

[OttomanHistoryHub]

Great video! I enjoyed getting a summarized history of the Byzantines since I'm still in the class of people who are trying to fill in the blanks between Justinian I, Basil II, 1071, 1204, and 1453.

[DM-dybq]

She survived from 4 century - 15 century, amazing how ERE survived for +1000 years with enemies on all side (and inside lmao), outliving many of her enemies. Enjoying golden ages/hegemonies and dark ages in a flash, being a scientific and cultural paragons, while being a badass dying defending a city versus a whole empire while being outnumbered af. *Tips hat*

[Valkyrie_Yukikaze]

Great history timeline of the Eastern Roman Empire！

[connorgolden]

God I’ll never grow tired of Roman and “Byzantine” history.

[Jaunyus]

One of the few who actually makes videos on the specific subjects of Eastern Byzantine history.

[denysd]

This one is amazing! The visuals and especially the content are off the charts. Having a recap really helps to put it all in perspective.

[byzantinetales]

Great channel! I have already subscribed ! Finally some Byzantine history for us 😄

[TheDAWinz]

What if the Hellenic independence war from the ottomans succeeded in taking Constantinople? Would the Roman State have been revived with the capital retaken? Since IIRC the Greek national identity was made in response to that failure.

[frenchmonk]

Great job on the video and explanation!
Very interesting time period.

[thenneklkt]

The AOE tracks in the background tho.

God bless.

[sturmgewer]

Those last minutes, hurts a lot to watch.

[papazataklaattiranimam]

The Qur'an includes the Surat Ar-Rum, the sura dealing with "the Romans", sometimes translated as "The Byzantines, " reflecting a term now used in the West. These Romans of the 7th century, referred to as Byzantines in modern Western scholarship, were the inhabitants of the surviving Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Since all ethnic groups within the Roman empire had been granted citizenship by 212 AD, these eastern peoples had come to label themselves Ρωμιοί or Ῥωμαῖοι Romaioi (Romans), using the word for Roman citizen in the eastern lingua franca of Koine Greek. This citizenship label became "Rûm" in Arabic.

The Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire traced its origin as an institution to the foundation of Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire in 330 by Constantine the Great. The Byzantine Empire survived the 5th century, when the Western Roman Empire fell, more or less intact and its populace continually maintained that they were Romaioi (Romans), not Hellenes (Greeks), even as the empire's borders gradually became reduced to in the end only encompassing Greek-speaking lands.

Nicol 1992, p. ix.

[wilsontheconqueror]

Enjoyed ur video! Love the eastern Roman empire history! Too underappreciated in the west. One question on the Byzantine transfer of empire at the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Did the last emperors brother give imperial authority to the Spanish empire? Wasn't he in exile in Italy? Keep up the great work, we are watching!

[papazataklaattiranimam]

In about 1440 John Argyropoulos wrote of the struggle for the freedom of ' Hellas ' in a letter addressed to John VIII as 'Emperor of Hellas'. We have come a long way from the days when the ambassador Liudprand of Cremona was thought unfit to be received at the Court because his credentials were addressed to the 'Emperor of the Greeks'. But 'Graeci' was never an acceptable term. George Scholarius, the future Patriarch Gennadius, who was to be the link between the old Byzantine world and the world of the Turcocratia, often uses 'Hellene' to mean anyone of Greek blood. But he had doubts about its propriety; he still retained the older view. When he was asked his specific opinion about his race, he wrote in reply: "Though I am a Hellene by birth, yet I would never say that I was a Hellene. For I do not believe as the Hellenes believed. I should like to take my name from my faith and, if anyone asked me what I am, to reply "a Christian". Though my father dwelt in Thessaly, ' he adds, 'I do not call myself a Thessalian, but a Byzantine. For I am of Byzantium.' It is to be remarked that though he repudiates the name of Hellene he calls the Imperial City not New Rome or Constantinople, but by its old Hellenic name.

Runciman, S. (1970). IMPERIAL DECLINE AND HELLENIC REVIVAL. In The Last Byzantine Renaissance (The Wiles Lectures, pp. 1-23). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[MegaTang]

You have a lovely voice and this was really interesting.

[franciscomm]

Will you make a video about constantine v?