Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia · Late Antiquity
Byzantine Empire
Rome's eastern half outlived the west by a thousand years
330 CE – 1453 CE · 1,123 years
The Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire in the east, surviving for nearly a millennium after Rome's fall.
Where it sits on the calendar
Government
Centralized empire
Writing system
Greek alphabet
Estimated peak population
30,000,000
How it ended
Invasion or conquest
Traits
How Byzantine Empire ended
Constantinople fell to Ottoman forces in 1453 after a prolonged final siege.
See other civilizations that fell the same way →Notable for
- Preservation and transmission of Greco-Roman texts
- The Hagia Sophia's engineering
- Codification of Roman law under Justinian
Who else was alive at the same time
8 other civilizations in this dataset overlap with Byzantine Empire's 1,123-year span.
See every overlap involving Byzantine Empire →