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Byzantine Empire
Byz·an·tine Em·pire


noun 
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late Roman Empire: the eastern part of the late Roman Empire, from ad 330 to 1453, when its capital Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. It was the center of Orthodox Christianity.
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