The Fall of an Empire - Byzantium (02/09)

The Fall of an Empire: Lesson of Byzantium (Eastern Roman Empire)

An excellent video showing the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire
This video shows the Russian perspective of what actually happened to the Eastern Roman Empire.

The video is freely available at
http://vizantia.info/ (click on the church)
The video is available in English, Russian, Serbian and Greek.

P.S.
MACEDONIA for the MACEDONIANS

Category:

Education

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• Eastern
• Roman
• Empire
• Byzantium
• Russia
• Balkans
• Christianity
• Orthodox
• Orthodoxy
• Fall
• West
• East
• Christ
• Constantinople
• Carigrad
• Istanbul
• Turkey
• Bosphorus
• Macedonia
• Macedonians

[Alucardthedeadone]

why say BYantium and Roman Empire?

[theMac3donian]

Because "Byzantium" (as in the terminology) did not exist. In fact that is a new term derived not that long ago. The proper name of the empire was "The Eastern Roman Empire" and it's inhabitants were the Romans.

[bionichampster]

This is what is happening to the US right now.

[Kawasazki]

It kinda of funny actually because the Romans actually were a mutlicultured people one government one world. This is amuzing because evntually the world will end up like with one universal government. Nationalities will be torn down...

[Kawasazki]

Not true the after 1205 and the subsequent recapture of Constantinople was Greek city state. But before then the byzantines were a multitude of nations just as Rome was. One of their greatest emperors was actually a serb by the name of Justinian.

[bionichampster]

@harrikelm Agreed. I'm going by their own words however.

[harrikelm]

@bionichampster

the US was never the "light" of the world.

[unfukkkmee]

THE  BYZANTINES ARE GREEKS

[Katerinoula1980]

@Lhein33 Good point!

[doppelganger2012]

@theMac3donian You are correct, I'm working on a masters in history and I am always repeating that.



[Lhein33]

@Katerinoula1980 There is no language called byzantine. In fact, there is no empire called Byzantine empire at all. The name is Roman empire (eastern Roman empire until 476 AD and simply Roman empire since then).

The languages of the empire was the greek and the latin. The latin was used for the laws and the administration and the greek by the Church and by the 90% of the population. Since the 6th century, greek also entered the adminastration sector.

The right term is MEDIEVAL GREEK LANGUAGE.

[Katerinoula1980]

For the records all the byzantine texts, hymns (church songs), and incsriptions on icons are in byzantine (in between ancient Greek and modern Greek-from which the modern Greek evolved)

[umaara100]

This sounds just like America.Why dont people ever learn