20 September 2022Go back to Diocletian's decision to divide the empire into the Western and Eastern wings in around 286, two domains—the Western Roman Latin-speaking empire and the Eastern Greek-speaking empire. Constantine founded Constantinople on the existing city of Byzantium in 330. This Wrst-East split was made permanent on the death of Emperor Theodosius in 379. This split separates what we call the Rome of Antiquity from Medieval Rome and the sacking of Byzantium by the Ottoman Turks marks the end of the so-called Middle Ages.Or back...
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