The Byzantine Empire or the Eastern Roman Empire is a historical term used to describe the Hellenized Roman Empire of the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
The capital of Byzantium was in Constantinople and the Byzantine emperors ruled the empire as the direct successors of the Roman emperors of antiquity.
There is no consensus in historical science when the history of the Byzantine Empire begins, or when the history of the Roman Empire ends. Since the name of Byzantium originated in the 16th century thanks to the Western European humanists, the key dates are 330 AD when Constantinople was inaugurated, then 395 when Emperor Theodosius I divided the empire into two parts and 476 AD. e. when the Western Roman Empire ceased to exist.
The Byzantines considered themselves Romans and spoke Greek, which was dominant in the Eastern Mediterranean since Hellenistic times.
Byzantium developed its own culture during the Middle Ages, which was based on the heritage of classical antiquity, Christian religion and the Greek language, which suppressed Latin during the 7th century.

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