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The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors (symbasileis) who never attained the status of sole or senior ruler, as well as of the various usurpers ...
In the 6th century, the philosophers Stephen of Byzantium and John Philoponus, the theologian John of Ephesus, the mathematical architects Anfimius of Trallus and Isidorus of Miletus lived and worked in Constantinople, which underwent a rapid cultural and scientific boom during the reign of the Justinian dynasty, The historians Procopius of ...
Constantinople was founded by the Roman emperor Constantine I (272–337) in 324 [6] on the site of an already-existing city, Byzantium, which was settled in the early days of Greek colonial expansion, in around 657 BC, by colonists of the city-state of Megara.
The emperors themselves used the title Emperor of the Romans (Greek: basileus Rhomaíōn). The term can refer to: the Byzantine Emperors, who ruled in the city from 330 to 1204 and from 1261 to 1453; the Latin Emperors, who ruled in the city from 1204 to 1261, as well as the later pretenders to this title
As emperor, Constantine enacted administrative, financial, social, and military reforms to strengthen the empire. He restructured the government , separating civil and military authorities. To combat inflation he introduced the solidus , a gold coin that became the standard for Byzantine and European currencies for more than a thousand years.
The patriarch inaugurated emperors from 457 onwards, while the crowds of Constantinople proclaimed their support, thus legitimizing their rule. [131] The senate originally had its own identity but later became a ceremonial extension of the emperor's court. [ 132 ]
Baldwin I (Dutch: Boudewijn; French: Baudouin; July 1172 – c. 1205) was the first Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople; Count of Flanders (as Baldwin IX) from 1194 to 1205 and Count of Hainaut (as Baldwin VI) from 1195 to 1205.
The problem was solved when Simeon died in 927 and his son and successor, Peter I, simply adopted Emperor of the Bulgarians as a show of submission to the universal empire of Constantinople. [84] Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos recognized the Bulgarian patriarchate soon after thus the Bulgarian Church became the sixth patriarchate joining ...