The Eastern and Western Roman Empires had a layered history, experienced a major division, and left lasting cultural and ...

In 330AD, Emperor Constantine split the Roman Empire into two eastern and western halves. Rome remained the capital of the Western Roman Empire, while Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - was ...

In 535, Eastern Roman armies attacked Italy. Justinian explained this aggression by claiming that “the Goths have used force to take Italy, which was ours, and have refused to give it back.” ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), ...

SIR AUREL STEIN has made an offer to the authorities concerned to make a detailed survey of that part of the eastern frontier of the ancient Roman Empire which lies within Transjordania and Iraq.

The eastern Roman Empire reached its greatest extent in the 6th century. Light purple represents its military gains from 533 and 565, a period in which the empire was supposedly devastated by ...