Rome and Byzantium

The Roman empire, the eastern half that outlived it by a thousand years, and the two governments that held or claimed Constantinople in the fifty-seven years the Fourth Crusade took it away. One continuous object that this site is obliged to cut into four records, and every page here says so.

The line below is a time axis. Position on it is date, so concurrency is visible: concurrent polities sit side by side rather than in sequence.

24 sourced edges run between this region and another, to Antigonid Macedon, Attalid Kingdom, Kingdom of Pontus, Herodian Kingdom, Nabataean Kingdom, Sasanian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Jafnid Dynasty, Palmyrene Empire, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Carolingian Empire, Bagratid Armenia, First Bulgarian Empire, Visigothic Kingdom, Vandal Kingdom, Ostrogothic Kingdom, Holy Roman Empire, Republic of Venice, Principality of Antioch and Empire of Trebizond. Those are not drawn on this line — a thread that crossed regions would assert a sequence nobody cited — but they are on each polity’s own page.

200400600800100012001400Roman Empire 27 BC – 395Byzantine Empire 395 – 1453Latin Empire of Constantinople 1204 – 1261Empire of Nicaea 1204 – 1261395 Byzantine Empire partitioned from Roman Empire (contested)1204 Byzantine Empire conquered by Latin Empire of Constantinople1204 Empire of Nicaea partitioned from Byzantine Empire1261 Latin Empire of Constantinople conquered by Empire of Nicaea1261 Byzantine Empire claimed legitimacy of Empire of Nicaea