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Eastern Roman Empire

noun

  1. the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.


Eastern Roman Empire

noun

  1. the eastern of the two empires created by the division of the Roman Empire in 395 ad See also Byzantine Empire


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Marcellinus later received several honorific titles from Justinian following the publication of his Chronicle, a work that bluntly hammers home its main theme that the Western Empire had fallen and Justinian’s Eastern Roman Empire should restore it.

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