Byzantium

Many consider Emperor Constantine I (ruled 306-337) to become the very first "Byzantine Emperor". It had been he who moved the imperial capital in 324 from Nicomedia to Byzantium, re-founded as Constantinople, or Nova Roma ("New Rome").[32] The town of Rome itself hadn't offered because the capital because the reign of Diocletian. Some date the origins from the Empire towards the reign of Theodosius I (379-395) and Christianity's official supplanting from the questionnable Roman religion, or following his dying in 395, once the political division between East and West grew to become permanent. Others put it yet later in 476, when Romulus Augustulus, typically considered the final western Emperor, was deposed, thus departing sole imperial authority using the emperor within the Greek East. Others indicate the reorganisation from the empire within the duration of Heraclius (c. 620) when Latin game titles and usages were formally changed with Greek versions. Regardless, the move was gradual by 330, when Constantine inaugurated his new capital, the entire process of hellenization and growing Christianisation had been arrived. The Empire is usually thought to have ended after nov Constantinople towards the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The Plague of Justinian would be a pandemic that stricken the Byzantine Empire, including its capital Constantinople, within the years 541-542. It's believed the Plague of Justinian wiped out as much as 100 million people around the globe.[33][34] It triggered Europe's population to visit around 50% between 541 and 700.[35] Additionally, it might have led to the prosperity of the Arab conquests.[36][37]