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Definition of Eastern Roman Empire
1. Noun. A continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395.
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Group relationships: Roman Empire
Terms within: Byzantium
Member holonyms: Byzantine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastern Roman Empire
Literary usage of Eastern Roman Empire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"(1250), it became comparatively weak even in those countries. In 1453 Constantinople
was taken by the Turks, and the Eastern Roman empire came to an end. ..."
2. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"Nevertheless in the 15th century the Eastern Roman Empire, that great bulwark of
... The first collision between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Moslems ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1853)
"State of the Eastern Roman empire prior to the accession of Leo III. The governmental
establishment of the empire had been fixed by Justinian I. on far too ..."
4. Historical Fiction Chronologically and Historically Related by James Ross Kaye (1920)
"I. THE Eastern Roman Empire For fifty years after the fall of the Western Empire
the Eastern was threatened with the same danger at the hands of the ..."
5. Elements of General History: Embracing All the Leading Events in the World's by John Warner Barber (1866)
"Eastern Roman Empire. The eastern empire, sometimes called the Greek Empire,
although it suffered much from the ravages of barbarous nations, ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In 1463 Constantinople was taken by the Turks, and the Eastern Roman empire came
to an end. The Western, however, though now so feeble that it could only be ..."
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