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Rome and the Byzantine Empire

Rome and Byzantium
The last of the kings bequeathed Pergamum to his Roman allies Attalids at his death in 138 BC Rome organized this extensive territory under a proconsul of the province of Asia. All of Anatolia except Armenia, which was a Roman client state, was integrated into the imperial system of 43 AD. After the accession of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 BC AD R. -14), and for generations thereafter, the Anatolian provinces enjoyed prosperity and security. The cities were managed by the municipal councils and sent delegates to discuss the Roman governor. Their inhabitants were citizens of a cosmopolitan world state, subject to a common legal system and a common identity novel. Roman in allegiance and Greek culture, the region nonetheless retained its ethnic complexity.
In AD 285, the Emperor Diocletian undertook the reorganization of the Roman Empire, which divides responsibility between the Latin-speaking and Greek-speaking halves. In 330 Diocletian’s successor, Constantine founded his capital in the Greek city of Byzantium “New Rome” strategically on the European side of the Bosphorus, at whose entrance is on the Marmara Sea.For nearly twelve centuries the city, embellished and renamed Constantinople, remained the capital of the Roman Empire – better in their continuous development in the east known as the Byzantine Empire.
Christianity in Anatolia through the missionary activity of Saint Paul, introduced a Greek-speaking Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, and his companions. Christians were perhaps even a majority of the population in most of Anatolia granted by the time Christianity official toleration under the Edict of Milan in 313 was. Before the end of the fourth century, a patriarchate in Constantinople with ecclesiastical jurisdiction over much of the Greek East was established.The Basilica of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), whose construction in Constantinople was ordered by Emperor Justinian in 532, became the spiritual focus of Greek Christendom.
Although the Greek language and culture, the Byzantine Empire was thoroughly Roman in its laws and administration. The emperor’s Greek-speaking subjects, conscious of their imperial vocation, called themselves romaioi – Romans. Almost to the end of his long history of the Byzantine Empire was seen as ecumenical addressed – including to all Christian peoples – and not specifically as a Greek state.
In the early seventh century, under the chairmanship of the emperor in Constantinople about a kingdom that is not included, only Greece and Anatolia but Syria, Egypt, Sicily, most of Italy and the Balkans, with offices across North Africa to to Morocco. Anatolia was the most productive part of this extensive empire and was also the most important reservoir of manpower for its defense. With the loss of Syria to Muslim conquest in the seventh century, Anatolia became the frontier as well as the heartland of the empire. The military requirements of the Byzantine State imposes its provincial police and defend its frontiers were enormous, but despite the gradual decline of the empire and frequent political unrest, Byzantine forces generally remained strong until the eleventh century.

Rome and Byzantium
The last of the kings bequeathed Pergamum to his Roman allies Attalids at his death in 138 BC Rome organized this extensive territory under a proconsul of the province of Asia. All of Anatolia except Armenia, which was a Roman client state, was integrated into the imperial system of 43 AD. After the accession of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 BC AD R. -14), and for generations thereafter, the Anatolian provinces enjoyed prosperity and security. The cities were managed by the municipal councils and sent delegates to discuss the Roman governor. Their inhabitants were citizens of a cosmopolitan world state, subject to a common legal system and a common identity novel. Roman in allegiance and Greek culture, the region nonetheless retained its ethnic complexity.
In AD 285, the Emperor Diocletian undertook the reorganization of the Roman Empire, which divides responsibility between the Latin-speaking and Greek-speaking halves. In 330 Diocletian’s successor, Constantine founded his capital in the Greek city of Byzantium “New Rome” strategically on the European side of the Bosphorus, at whose entrance is on the Marmara Sea.For nearly twelve centuries the city, embellished and renamed Constantinople, remained the capital of the Roman Empire – better in their continuous development in the east known as the Byzantine Empire.
Christianity in Anatolia through the missionary activity of Saint Paul, introduced a Greek-speaking Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, and his companions. Christians were perhaps even a majority of the population in most of Anatolia granted by the time Christianity official toleration under the Edict of Milan in 313 was. Before the end of the fourth century, a patriarchate in Constantinople with ecclesiastical jurisdiction over much of the Greek East was established.The Basilica of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), whose construction in Constantinople was ordered by Emperor Justinian in 532, became the spiritual focus of Greek Christendom.
Although the Greek language and culture, the Byzantine Empire was thoroughly Roman in its laws and administration. The emperor’s Greek-speaking subjects, conscious of their imperial vocation, called themselves romaioi – Romans. Almost to the end of his long history of the Byzantine Empire was seen as ecumenical addressed – including to all Christian peoples – and not specifically as a Greek state.
In the early seventh century, under the chairmanship of the emperor in Constantinople about a kingdom that is not included, only Greece and Anatolia but Syria, Egypt, Sicily, most of Italy and the Balkans, with offices across North Africa to to Morocco. Anatolia was the most productive part of this extensive empire and was also the most important reservoir of manpower for its defense. With the loss of Syria to Muslim conquest in the seventh century, Anatolia became the frontier as well as the heartland of the empire. The military requirements of the Byzantine State imposes its provincial police and defend its frontiers were enormous, but despite the gradual decline of the empire and frequent political unrest, Byzantine forces generally remained strong until the eleventh century.