The Byzantine Empire

[Blog Real]

List of Byzantine emperors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Byzantine_emperors

 

[CyrilVladisla]

The Eastern Roman Empire is often called the Byzantine Empire.

 

[shaikhatif1987]

Are the Romans in the Holy Qur'an ?

 

[shaikhatif1987]

 

[Toledo]

That is some video you posted in there even if the link didn't pick it up directly. A bit strong in the use of selected imagery about the people of the Jewish Faith.

 

[Toledo]

And CyrilVladisla, thanks for your video!
I love to check out information on the Eastern Roman empire and, since a time I can't remember, my favorite book on the subject is The Alexiad. Especially the versions that have a glossary of terms or foot notes to describe the titles used in the Empire for officials that are different than their Latin/Western Empire counterparts.

 

[An Ard Ri]

The Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople was used for centuries as an Imperial burial site and was used following the death of Emperor Constantine I until Constantine VIII.
Sadly the church was pillaged by the Ottomans post 1451 and the remains of all those buried there were dumped into the Bosphorus.
The dilapidated church was then demolished.
Some of the empty Imperial Tombs have survived and are housed outside the the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

 

[Blog Real]

Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus (1224 – 11 December 1282)[3] reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1261 until his death in 1282, and previously as the co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea from 1259 to 1261.
More information: Michael VIII Palaiologos - Wikipedia

Theodora Doukaina Komnene Palaiologina, was the empress consort of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. Theodora was a daughter of John Doukas and Eudokia Angelina.
More information: Theodora Palaiologina (Byzantine empress) - Wikipedia

 

[Toledo]

I'm reading in Kindle a 2014 book I recently found finally converted to be available at the kindle store, The Complete History of the Eastern Roman Empire by Bury, J.B., Diehl, Charles Baynes and Norman Baynes. I recall I got this title in a bookmark reference in Wikipedia while I was researching something on the Eastern Roman refugees that escaped the fall of the city and relocated in Rome.

BTW you can also find in free app Spotify several books converted to audio on Byzantium.

From YouTube, this interesting narration video was uploaded about a week ago:

 

[An Ard Ri]

A miniature painting by Jean Le Tavernier of The siege of Constantinople 1453
I can't help but feel that the West and in particular the Papacy abandoned support for the Byzantine's
The Ottomans plundered the city ,sacked its great churches and Cathedral and slaughtered all the elderly/infirm and wounded.
Convents too were not spared and nuns were raped as were thousands of others male and females
Many noble had hidden their children inside Convents.

Thousands of children were enslaved and the reports from the Greek Dominican scholar Leonard of Chios were horrific.

He later recalled that up to 'sixty thousand Christians who had been captured' and how a ' fifteen-year-old boy, was killed by the Sultan for having repelled his advances'
He also lamented at how 'Every tent was filled with handsome boys and beautiful girls'
Leonard and another Dominican were enslaved but later had their freedom bough and were released.

Mehmed ll, Entering the City of Constantinople

 

[Blog Real]

Andronikos II Palaiologos (25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332), Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the beginning of the recently restored empire's final decline.
More information: Andronikos II Palaiologos - Wikipedia

Anna of Hungary (c. 1260–1281) was a Princess of Hungary and Croatia, and a Byzantine Empress by marriage to Andronikos II Palaiologos.
More information: Anna of Hungary (Byzantine empress) - Wikipedia

Yolande of Montferrat (c. 1274 – 1317 in Drama) (also known as Violante, then Empress Irene) was the second wife of Andronikos II Palaiologos and thus Empress of the Byzantine Empire. She was the heiress of the Margraviate of Montferrat.
More information: Irene of Montferrat - Wikipedia