Empire600 CE – 750 CE · 150 years
Byzantine Empire (600-750)
OTHER SLICES750–843 CE · 1261–1350 · 1350–1453
Overview
The Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, it endured until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. The term 'Byzantine Empire' was coined only after its demise; its citizens used the term 'Roman Empire' and called themselves 'Romans'.
Wikipedia: Byzantine Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps:700:Eastern Roman Empire (r14 gap fill)
- SNAPSHOT700 CE
- MATCHEDEastern Roman Empire
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire76
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity (any of its time-slices), best-documented first.
- World-changing · 10K dead
- Muslim Conquest of Egypt639–646 CEWorld-changing
- Byzantine-Arab Wars633 CE–1453Major conflict · 1.0M dead
- Arab-Byzantine Wars629 CE–1050Major conflict · 500K dead
- Arab Conquest of the Levant633–638 CEMajor conflict · 100K dead
- Siege of Constantinople (717-718)717–718 CEMajor conflict · 50K dead
- Major conflict · 50K dead
- Sasanian Conquest of Egypt618–621 CEMajor conflict
- Battle of Heliopolis640 CEMajor conflict
- Siege of Carthage (698)695–698 CEMajor conflict
- Aghlabid Conquest of Sicily827–902 CEMajor conflict
- Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars681 CE–1018Significant · 500K dead
- Abbasid-Byzantine Wars798 CE–1000Significant · 200K dead
- Byzantine–Ottoman wars1265–1453Significant
- Khazar Wars650–950 CERegional · 100K dead
- Battle of Viminacium601 CERegional
- Battle of Antioch, Syria611 CERegional
- Battle of Jerusalem614 CERegional
- Battle of Thessalonica615 CERegional
- Battle of Thessalonica618 CERegional
- Battle of Ophlimos622 CERegional
- Battle of Dwin624 CERegional
- Battle of Arcesh625 CERegional
- Battle of Sarus625 CERegional
+ 52 more in the atlas.
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 600 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Byzantine Empire (600-750) (600 CE – 750 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/byzantine-empire-700 · Sources & methodology