The Avars became a massive headache for the ByzantineGreeks—and for good reasons ...Imagine being in Constantinople in the summer of 626 AD, when an Avar army is camped outside the Byzantine city’s walls.
Byzantine princess introduces the fork. When the Macedonian dynasty (867–1056), founded by Basil I, came to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, a new golden age began.
The modern Spanish monarchy is sometimes described in historical circles as holding a theoretical dynastic claim to the Byzantine imperial title, the final continuation of the ancient Roman Empire in the East.
The wild landscape of Mani, long regarded as the last bastion of pagan Greece within the ByzantineEmpire...Despite prolonged resistance, Byzantine sources report that Mani’s conversion eventually took place—and not peacefully.